lumpfish

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsCyclopterus lumpus

   Broaderscorpaenoid

   Narrowerlumpsucker

   Part ofCyclopterus

Other forms of lumpfish

plural

lumpfishes

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 lumpfish

What does lumpfish mean?

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

How many syllables are in lumpfish?

lumpfish has 2 syllables: lump-fish. The stress falls on "lump".

What is another word for lumpfish?

Close synonyms include Cyclopterus lumpus. 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 lumpfish a common word?

lumpfish 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.