noun
Meaning 1
Any fish of the family Anarhichadidae.
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
wolffish
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/ˈwʊlfˌfɪʃ/
noun
Meaning 2
large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lancetfish, lancet fish
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
noun
Meaning 3
large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wolf fish, catfish
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: blennioid fish, blennioid
History
Etymology
From wolf + fish.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 狼魚 /狼鱼 (lángyú) — fish
- Czech: vlkouš — fish
- Dutch: zeewolf — fish
- Esperanto: lupfiŝo — fish
- Faroese: steinbítur — fish
- Finnish: merikissa — fish
- French: poisson loup — fish
- Galician: lorcho — fish
- German: Seewolf — fish
- Italian: pesce lupo — fish
- Latin: lupus — fish
- Norwegian Bokmål: steinbit — fish
- Norwegian Nynorsk: steinbit — fish
- Polish: zębacz — fish
- Russian: полоса́тая зуба́тка (polosátaja zubátka) — fish
- Russian: зуба́тка (zubátka) — fish
- Swedish: havskattfisk — fish
- Yiddish: וואָלף־פֿיש (volf-fish) — fish