Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

burrfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bur-rfish
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Chilomycterus schoepfi, a fish of the family Diodontidae distinguished from the porcupinefish by the shorter and blunter spines covering the somewhat spherical body.

Etymology

From burr + fish.

Inflected Forms

burrfishes (plural)

Synonyms

burfish

Questions

What does burrfish mean?: Chilomycterus schoepfi, a fish of the family Diodontidae distinguished from the porcupinefish by the shorter and blunter spines covering the somewhat spherical body.
Where does burrfish come from?: From burr + fish.

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