Etymology

batrachoidid

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Today it means: Any fish in the family Batrachoididae, the toadfishes. Full definition →

translingual Batrachoididae ← Ancient Greek βάτραχος
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromβάτραχος“frog”
  2. translingual · borrowed fromBatrachoididae
  3. English todaybatrachoidid

From translingual Batrachoididae, from Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekβάτραχος all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.