porkfish

1. 1.

   black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil

   Synonymspork-fishAnisotremus virginicus

   Broadergrunt

   Part ofAnisotremus

Other forms of porkfish

plural

porkfishes·

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 porkfish

What does porkfish mean?

porkfish means "black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil".

How many syllables are in porkfish?

porkfish has 2 syllables: pork-fish. The stress falls on "pork".

What is another word for porkfish?

Close synonyms include pork-fish, Anisotremus virginicus. 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 porkfish a common word?

porkfish 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.