tongue-fish

1. 1.

   left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value

   Synonymstonguefish

   Broaderflatfish

   Part ofCynoglossidae

Questions about tongue-fish

What does tongue-fish mean?

tongue-fish means "left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value".

How many syllables are in tongue-fish?

tongue-fish has 3 syllables: ton-gue--fish. The stress falls on "ton".

What is another word for tongue-fish?

Close synonyms include tonguefish. 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 tongue-fish a common word?

tongue-fish 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.