alligatorfish

1. 1.

   small very elongate sea poachers

   SynonymsAspidophoroides monopterygius

   Broaderpoacher

   Part ofAspidophoroides

Other forms of alligatorfish

plural

alligatorfishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alligatorfish

What does alligatorfish mean?

alligatorfish means "small very elongate sea poachers".

How many syllables are in alligatorfish?

alligatorfish has 5 syllables: al-li-ga-tor-fish. The stress falls on "ga".

What is another word for alligatorfish?

Close synonyms include Aspidophoroides monopterygius. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alligatorfish a common word?

alligatorfish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.