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oilfish

noun

Etymology

From oil + 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 oilfish — “oil + fish”

Definitions

  1. A snake mackerel (Ruvettus pretiosus), having a high content of wax esters instead of…

    A snake mackerel (Ruvettus pretiosus), having a high content of wax esters instead of glyceride oils.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for oilfish. 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