Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
shrimp-fish is a noun meaning "slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates". It carries one recorded sense.
slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shrimp-fish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.