Meanings
plural wolffishes · alternative wolf-fish · alternative wolf fish
- Any fish of the family Anarhichadidae.
Synonyms: swinefish, swine-fish, swine
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny fish of the family Anarhichadidae.
More synonyms by meaning
nounlarge ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
nounlarge elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 狼魚 /狼鱼
- 狼魚 /狼鱼 (lángyú)fish
Czech vlkouš
- vlkoušfish
Dutch zeewolf
- zeewolffish
Esperanto lupfiŝo
- lupfiŝofish
Finnish merikissa
- merikissafish
French poisson loup
- poisson loupfish
German Seewolf
- Seewolffish
Italian pesce lupo
- pesce lupofish
Latin lupus
- lupusfish
Norwegian Bokmål steinbit
- steinbitfish
Polish zębacz
- zębaczfish
Russian полоса́тая зуба́тка, зуба́тка
- полоса́тая зуба́тка (polosátaja zubátka)fish
- зуба́тка (zubátka)fish
Swedish havskattfisk
- havskattfiskfish
Yiddish וואָלף־פֿיש
- וואָלף־פֿיש (volf-fish)fish
Cite this entry
wolffish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wolffish
“wolffish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wolffish. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wolffish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wolffish.
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