WOLF FISH

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Meaning:

Large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins

Synonyms:

catfish; wolf fish; wolffish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("wolf fish" is a kind of...):

blennioid; blennioid fish (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)

Holonyms ("wolf fish" is a member of...):

Anarhichas; genus Anarhichas (type genus of the Anarhichadidae)