frost fish

frost fish
noun
long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel
Syn: ↑cutlassfish, ↑hairtail
Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean
Member Holonyms: ↑Trichiuridae, ↑family Trichiuridae

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