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wedgefish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
wedge-fish
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the rays in the genus Rhynchobatus

noun

Any member of the two other species in family Rhinidae, known as shark rays.

Etymology

From wedge + fish, from its body shape.

Inflected Forms

wedgefishes (plural)

Phrases

African wedgefish bottlenose wedgefish broadnose wedgefish eyebrow wedgefish Japanese wedgefish roughnose wedgefish smoothnose wedgefish Taiwanese wedgefish

Questions

What does wedgefish mean?
Any of the rays in the genus Rhynchobatus
Where does wedgefish come from?
From wedge + fish, from its body shape.

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