soapfish

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noun

Rypticus bicolor (mottled soapfish)

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounsoapfish (plural soapfishes or soapfish)

plural soapfishes

  1. Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
    1. Rypticus bicolor (mottled soapfish)
    2. Rypticus bistrispinus (freckled soapfish)
    3. Rypticus bornoi (largespotted soapfish)
    4. Rypticus carpenteri (slope soapfish)
    5. Rypticus courtenayi (Socorran soapfish)
    6. Rypticus maculatus (whitespotted soapfish)
    7. Rypticus nigripinnis (blackfin soapfish, twice-spotted soapfish)
    8. Rypticus randalli (plain soapfish)
    9. Rypticus saponaceus (greater soapfish, three-spined soapfish, soapy jack)
    10. Rypticus subbifrenatus (spotted soapfish)
    11. Grammistes sexlineatus (golden stripe soapfish, goldenstriped soapfish, six-lined soapfish, skunkfish
    12. Aulacocephalus temminckii (goldribbon soapfish, goldstripe grouper)
    13. Pogonoperca ocellata (Indian soapfish)
    14. Pogonoperca punctata (leaflip soapfish, spotted soapfish, snowflake soapfish, leaflip grouper)
    15. Diploprion bifasciatum (barred soapfish, two-banded soapfish)
    16. Diploprion drachi (yellowfin soapfish)
  2. A species of lizardfish (Synodus foetens)

Origin

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