convictfish

1. 1.

   greenling with whitish body marked with black bands

   Synonymspainted greenlingconvict fishOxylebius pictus

   Broadergreenling

   Part ofOxylebius

Other forms of convictfish

plural

convictfishes·

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 convictfish

What does convictfish mean?

convictfish means "greenling with whitish body marked with black bands".

How many syllables are in convictfish?

convictfish has 3 syllables: con-vict-fish. The stress falls on "con".

What is another word for convictfish?

Close synonyms include painted greenling, convict fish, Oxylebius pictus. 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 convictfish a common word?

convictfish 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.