Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

weedfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: weed-fish
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of a variety of species of fish of the family Clinidae found in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"1957, N. J. Berrill and Jacquelyn Berrill, 1001 Questions Answered about the Seashore, New York: Dover, p. 278, In spite of fishermen’s opinions and complaints, cormorants feed principally on bottom fish of no commercial value, such as rockfish and weedfish."
"They’d been crammed like weedfish aboard the boat for two days; the trip home would probably be longer."

Etymology

From weed + fish.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does weedfish mean?: One of a variety of species of fish of the family Clinidae found in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.
Where does weedfish come from?: From weed + fish.

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