shrimp-fish

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   slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates

   Synonymsshrimpfish

   Broaderteleost fish

   Part ofCentriscidae

Questions about shrimp-fish

What does shrimp-fish mean?

shrimp-fish means "slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates".

How many syllables are in shrimp-fish?

shrimp-fish has 2 syllables and divides as shrimp--fish under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.