noun
Meaning 1
Any member of the family Synodontidae of aulopiform fish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lizardfish
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian: /ˈlɪzədfɪʃ/
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noun
Meaning 2
tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: snakefish, snake-fish
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
History
Etymology
From lizard + fish.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: риба гущер (riba gušter) — member of the family Synodontidae
- French: poisson-lézard — member of the family Synodontidae
- German: Eidechsenfisch — member of the family Synodontidae
- Japanese: 鱛 (eso) — member of the family Synodontidae
- Russian: ящероголо́вая ры́ба (jaščerogolóvaja rýba) — member of the family Synodontidae
- Russian: ры́ба-я́щерица (rýba-jáščerica) — member of the family Synodontidae
- Bulgarian: Риби гущер (Ribi gušter) — the taxonomic family Synodontidae
- Dutch: hagedisvissen — the taxonomic family Synodontidae
- French: poissons-lézards — the taxonomic family Synodontidae
- German: Eidechsenfische — the taxonomic family Synodontidae