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hatchetfish

noun

Etymology

From hatchet + fish.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. compounded as hatchetfish — “hatchet + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of several freshwater tropical fish of the family Gasteropelecidae

  2. Any fish in the deep-sea stomiiform family Sternoptychidae

The neighborhood

Derived

flying hatchetfish

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hatchetfish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA