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sweetfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sweet-fish
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An amphidromous fish, the ayu of East Asia (Plecoglossus altivelis), the only member of its genus and family Plecoglossidae, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh, especially in Japan, as a game fish, and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.

Etymology

sweet + fish

Inflected Forms

sweetfishes (plural)

Synonyms

ayu ai

Questions

What does sweetfish mean?
An amphidromous fish, the ayu of East Asia (Plecoglossus altivelis), the only member of its genus and family Plecoglossidae, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh, especially in Japan, as a game fish, and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.
Where does sweetfish come from?
sweet + fish

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