Weedfish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Weedfish is a noun meaning One of a variety of species of fish of the family Clinidae found in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.
Meaning
One of a variety of species of fish of the family Clinidae found in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.
Example Sentences
They’d been crammed like weedfish aboard the boat for two days; the trip home would probably be longer.
1957, N. J. Berrill and Jacquelyn Berrill, 1001 Questions Answered about the Seashore, New York: Dover, p. 278, In spite of fishermen’s opinions and complaints, cormorants feed principally on bottom fish of no commercial value, such as rockfish and weedfish.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include blobfish, kelpfish, rockfish, javelinfish, bluefish, blue-eye.
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