alligatorfish

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noun

a bottom-dwelling marine fish of species Aspidophoroides monopterygius, family Agonidae, which is found along the coasts of the northwestern Atlantic.

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Aleutian alligator fishAtlantic alligatorfishAspidophoroides monopterygius
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Meanings

nounalligatorfish (plural alligatorfishes or alligatorfish)

plural alligatorfishes · alternative alligator fish

  1. a bottom-dwelling marine fish of species Aspidophoroides monopterygius, family Agonidae, which is found along the coasts of the northwestern Atlantic.

    Synonyms: Aleutian alligator fish, Atlantic alligatorfish

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna bottom-dwelling marine fish of species Aspidophoroides monopterygius, family Agonidae, which is found along the coasts of the northwestern Atlantic.

Similar
Aleutian alligator fishAtlantic alligatorfish

More synonyms by meaning

nounsmall very elongate sea poachers

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Aspidophoroides monopterygius
Broader
poachersea poachersea poker

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From alligator + fish.

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