lizardfish

English

Etymology

lizard +‎ fish

Noun

lizardfish (plural lizardfishes or lizardfish)

1. Any member of the family Synodontidae of aulopiform fish.

Derived terms

• Atlantic lizardfish (Synodus saurus)
• blue-striped lizardfish (Synodus saurus)
• deepsea lizardfish (Bathysaurus ferox: Bathysauridae)
• greater lizardfish (Saurida tumbil)
• Indian lizardfish (Synodus indicus)
• inshore lizardfish (Synodus foetens)
• lance lizardfish (Synodus scituliceps)
• Mundy's arrowtooth lizardfish (Synodus mundyi)
• offshore lizardfish (Synodus poeyi)
• orangemouth lizardfish (Saurida flamma)
• redmarbled lizardfish (Synodus saurus)
• sand lizardfish (Synodus dermatogenys)
• shorthead lizardfish (Synodus scituliceps)
• shortjaw lizardfish (Saurida caribbaea)
• slender lizardfish (Saurida elongata)
• smallscale lizardfish (Saurida caribbaea)
• variegated lizardfish (Synodus variegatus)
• Wanieso lizardfish (Saurida wanieso)

 

Translations

member of the family Synodontidae

• French: poisson-lézard (fr) m
• German: Eidechsenfisch m
• Japanese: 鱛 (ja) (エソ, eso)
• Russian: ящероголо́вая ры́ба f (jaščerogolóvaja rýba), ры́ба-я́щерица (ru) f (rýba-jáščerica)

the taxonomic family Synodontidae

• Dutch: hagedisvissen (nl)
• French: poissons-lézards (fr) m pl
• German: Eidechsenfische m pl

References

• “lizardfish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• lizardfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia