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prowfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
prow-fish
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of subtropical perciform saltwater fish, Zaprora silenus, found in the North Pacific.

noun

An Australian prowfish (any fish of the family Pataecidae, characterized by a long dorsal fin that begins far forward on the head, forming a "prow" shape, and extends all the way to the caudal fin).

Etymology

From prow + fish.

Inflected Forms

prowfishes (plural)

Questions

What does prowfish mean?
A species of subtropical perciform saltwater fish, Zaprora silenus, found in the North Pacific.
Where does prowfish come from?
From prow + fish.

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