noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very slender bodies. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

fishfoolfishfoolfish

Etymology

From file + fish.

Related phrases

fringed filefishorange filefishscrawled filefish

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