cyclopterus lumpus

1. 1.

   clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar

   Synonymslumpfish

   Broaderscorpaenoid

   Narrowerlumpsucker

   Part ofCyclopterus

Questions about cyclopterus lumpus

What does cyclopterus lumpus mean?

cyclopterus lumpus means "clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar".

What is another word for cyclopterus lumpus?

Close synonyms include lumpfish. 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 cyclopterus lumpus a common word?

cyclopterus lumpus 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.