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stonefish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.57 in modern English

Syllables
stone-fish
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock, of the genus Synanceia, found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean

Etymology

From stone + fish.

Inflected Forms

stonefishes (plural) stone fish (alternative) stone-fish (alternative)

Phrases

estuary stonefish Synanceia horrida reef stonefish Synanceia verrucosa

Synonyms

synanceja verrucosa

Questions

What does stonefish mean?
A venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock, of the genus Synanceia, found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean
Where does stonefish come from?
From stone + fish.

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