cucumber fish

noun

Any fish of the Australian genus Paraulopus, especially Paraulopus nigripinnis.

Meanings

nouncucumber fish (plural cucumber fishes or cucumber fish)

plural cucumber fishes

  1. Any fish of the Australian genus Paraulopus, especially Paraulopus nigripinnis.
  2. Any Australian grayling (Prototroctes maraena).
  3. Any New Zealand smelt (Retropinna retropinna).
  4. Any bivalve pearlfish (Onuxodon margaritiferae).
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