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CLINGFISH
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Irregular inflected form: clingfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("clingfish" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clingfish"):
Gobiesox strumosus; skillet fish; skilletfish (clingfish with typical skillet shape)
Holonyms ("clingfish" is a member of...):
family Gobiesocidae; Gobiesocidae (clingfishes)
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