Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

striped catfish

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English

Syllables: striped -cat-fish
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Plotosus lineatus, a type of eeltail catfish with a long, cylindrical body, black with horizontal white stripes and venomous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins, found in the Indian Ocean, the western Pacific, and invasive in the Mediterranean.

Inflected Forms

striped catfishes (plural)

Questions

What does striped catfish mean?: Plotosus lineatus, a type of eeltail catfish with a long, cylindrical body, black with horizontal white stripes and venomous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins, found in the Indian Ocean, the western Pacific, and invasive in the Mediterranean.

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