cutlassfish

Questions about cutlassfish

What does cutlassfish mean?

cutlassfish means "long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel".

How many syllables are in cutlassfish?

cutlassfish has 3 syllables: cut-lass-fish. The stress falls on "cut".

What is another word for cutlassfish?

Close synonyms include frost fish, hairtail. 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 cutlassfish a common word?

cutlassfish 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.