flyfish

See also: fly-fish

English

Etymology

fly +‎ fish?

Noun

flyfish (plural flyfishes or flyfish)

1. (obsolete) (the name given in most sources,Sebastichthys rhodochloris, seems to be a synonym for this), a brightly-coloured scorpaenoid fish of California.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “flyfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• fishfly