knifefish
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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
knifefish (plural knifefishes or knifefish)
Usage notes[edit]
- Any of the fish listed below in derived terms are called knifefish, as are featherbacks (family Notopteridae) and abas (Gymnarchus niloticus, family Gymnarchidae)
Derived terms[edit]
- banded knifefish (family Gymnotidae)
- black ghost knifefish
- sand knifefish (family Rhamphichthyidae)
- bluntnose knifefish (family Hypopomidae)
- glass knifefish (family Sternopygidae)
- rat-tail knifefish (family Sternopygidae)
- ghost knifefish (family Apteronotidae)
- grey knifefish (Bathystethus cultratus, family Kyphosidae)
- blue knifefish (Labracoglossa nitida, family Kyphosidae)
- collared knifefish (Cymolutes torquatus, family Labridae)
- finscale razorfish (Cymolutes torquatus, family Labridae)
- jack-knifefish (Equetus lanceolatus, family Sciaenidae)