snailfish

1. 1.

   small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish

   Synonymsseasnailsea snailLiparis liparis

   Broaderscorpaenoid

   Part ofLiparis

Other forms of snailfish

plural

snailfishes

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 snailfish

What does snailfish mean?

snailfish means "small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish".

How many syllables are in snailfish?

snailfish has 2 syllables: snail-fish. The stress falls on "snail".

What is another word for snailfish?

Close synonyms include seasnail, sea snail, Liparis liparis. 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 snailfish a common word?

snailfish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.