Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various bottom-dwelling, large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae of warm seas, having a lizardlike head.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ganoid fish of the group of sauroids.
- noun A fish of the genus Synodus, of which there are several species, as the sandpike, S. fœtens, found from Cape Cod southward. S. lucioceps occurs on the Californian and Mexican coasts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any of several mostly tropical marine scopeloid fish of the family
Synodontidae having large mouths in lizardlike heads, especially theinshore lizardfish (Synodus foetens syn.Synodus poeyi ) of Mideastern and Southern United States and West Indies; -- sometimes calledsand pike .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any member of the
family Synodontidae ofaulopiform fish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
Etymologies
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lizard + fish
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Examples
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Then Nigel walks up with a blue runner and Ely hauls up a lizardfish.
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Then Nigel walks up with a blue runner and Ely hauls up a lizardfish.
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Our patience was rewarded by getting a close look at some blue-spotted stingrays, a turtle and a huge lizardfish.
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Boat Division Most Exotic: Gerard Orlandi, lizardfish
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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Boat Division Most Exotic: Gerard Orlandi, lizardfish
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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