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LUMPFISH
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Irregular inflected form: lumpfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar
Synonyms:
Cyclopterus lumpus; lumpfish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lumpfish" is a kind of...):
scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lumpfish"):
lumpsucker (any of several very small lumpfishes)
Holonyms ("lumpfish" is a member of...):
Cyclopterus; genus Cyclopterus (type genus of the Cyclopteridae: lumpfishes)