ruvettus pretiosus

1. 1.

   very large deep-water snake mackerel

   Synonymsoilfish

   Broadergempylid

Questions about ruvettus pretiosus

What does ruvettus pretiosus mean?

ruvettus pretiosus means "very large deep-water snake mackerel".

What is another word for ruvettus pretiosus?

Close synonyms include oilfish. 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 ruvettus pretiosus a common word?

ruvettus pretiosus 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.