spearfish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.
noun
Any striped marlin (Kajikia audax)
name
Example Sentences
- "Bart, who incidentally has designed an excellent diaphragm‐type call for geese and turkeys, once spearfished commercially in the British West Indies."
- "A Bajau diver spearfishes in Sulawesi."
- "He always said freediving was the best way to spearfish because it required enormous patience and concentration, without the benefit of a scuba tank, to hold one’s position until the right prey came along."
Etymology
Etymology tree English spear Proto-Indo-European *péysks Proto-Germanic *fiskaz Proto-West Germanic *fisk Old English fisċ Middle English fisch English fish English spearfish From spear + fish.
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
spearfishsucker
Phrases
Atlantic longbill spearfish
Japanese spearfish
longbill spearfish
Mediterranean shortbill spearfish
Mediterranean spearfish
roundscale spearfish
shortbill spearfish
slender spearfish