soupfin

1. 1.

   Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A)

   Synonymssoupfin sharksoup-finGaleorhinus zyopterus

   Broaderrequiem shark

   Part ofGaleorhinus

Other forms of soupfin

plural

soupfins·

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 soupfin

What does soupfin mean?

soupfin means "Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A)".

How many syllables are in soupfin?

soupfin has 2 syllables: soup-fin. The stress falls on "soup".

What is another word for soupfin?

Close synonyms include soupfin shark, soup-fin, Galeorhinus zyopterus. 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 soupfin a common word?

soupfin 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.