beardfish

beardfish

English

Etymology

From beard +‎ fish, because of its barbels.

Noun

beardfish (plural beardfishes or beardfish)

  2. Any of various deep-sea fish, of the family Polymixiidae, that have a pair of long hyoid barbels.
    Hypernyms: polymixiid < fish < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

Translations

See also

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.