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PRONUNCIATION OF FOOLFISH

foolfish  [ˈfuːlˌfɪʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOOLFISH

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preposition
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determiner
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Foolfish is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FOOLFISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of foolfish in the English dictionary

The definition of foolfish in the dictionary is a common name for the orange filefish or winter flounder.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOOLFISH


angelfish
ˈeɪndʒəlˌfɪʃ
billfish
ˈbɪlˌfɪʃ
coalfish
ˈkəʊlˌfɪʃ
cuttlefish
ˈkʌtəlˌfɪʃ
damselfish
ˈdæmzəlˌfɪʃ
dealfish
ˈdiːlˌfɪʃ
devilfish
ˈdɛvəlˌfɪʃ
fallfish
ˈfɔːlˌfɪʃ
filefish
ˈfaɪlˌfɪʃ
jewelfish
ˈdʒuːəlˌfɪʃ
needlefish
ˈniːdəlˌfɪʃ
paddlefish
ˈpædəlˌfɪʃ
sablefish
ˈseɪbəlˌfɪʃ
sailfish
ˈseɪlˌfɪʃ
shellfish
ˈʃɛlˌfɪʃ
snailfish
ˈsneɪlˌfɪʃ
squirrelfish
ˈskwɪrəlˌfɪʃ
swellfish
ˈswɛlˌfɪʃ
tilefish
ˈtaɪlˌfɪʃ
wallfish
ˈwɔːlˌfɪʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOOLFISH

fool along
fool´s cap
fool´s errand
fool´s gold
fool´s mate
fool´s paradise
fool´s-parsley
foolbegged
fooleries
foolery
foolhardier
foolhardiest
foolhardily
foolhardiness
foolhardy
fooling about
foolish
foolishly
foolishness
foolproof

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOOLFISH

big fish
blowfish
catfish
cellfish
crawfish
crayfish
drink like a fish
elfish
fish
goldfish
jellyfish
oafish
selfish
starfish
swordfish
unselfish
werewolfish
werwolfish
whitefish
wolfish

Synonyms and antonyms of foolfish in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «foolfish» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOOLFISH

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The translations of foolfish from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «foolfish» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

foolfish
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

foolfish
570 millions of speakers

English

foolfish
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

foolfish
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

foolfish
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

foolfish
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

foolfish
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

foolfish
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

foolfish
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bodoh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

foolfish
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

foolfish
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

foolfish
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Foolfish
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

foolfish
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

foolfish
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मूर्ख
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

foolfish
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

foolfish
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

foolfish
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

foolfish
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

foolfish
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

foolfish
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

foolfish
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

foolfish
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

foolfish
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of foolfish

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOOLFISH»

The term «foolfish» is used very little and occupies the 193.074 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about foolfish

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOOLFISH»

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Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries
Do- Slightly Somewhat lighter. Not spotted . (?) (?) (?) (?) eral sp.). darker. Dark do Yellow. Brownish . . . (?) (?) do do Distinctly Dark blue(?) pike). Dark Light ...do yellow. Yellow.. . Brownish . . . (?) Not tested . . green. canthus (foolfish) sp.? do ...
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Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission
The Pile-Fishes. 157. Monacanthus hispidus (Liunwus). Foolfish; Filzfish. (“ i §) Present every year; some years rather scarce, some years abundant. In 1897 it was extremely numerous in July and August, and several hundred were often taken ...
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A List of the Fishes of Rhode Island
The Fileflshes. 131. Monacanthus hispidus (Linnaeus). Foolfish; Filefish. Geog. Dist. : Cape Cod to Cuba, through the West Indies to Brazil. Season in R. I. : A few specimens taken in Rhode Island waters, the maximum size being 5 or 6 inches.
Henry Carroll Tracy, 1906
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Zoological Society Bulletin
THE ORANGE FILE FISH ONE of the most unique fishes of our fauna is the Orange Filcfish (Alutera schoepfi), known also by a variety of local names, such as foolfish, leather-jacket, hambag—fish, old maid, living skeleton and sunfish.
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Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries Made ...
... Flying robin, 148 Foolfish, 139 Four-spined stickleback, 91 Four-spotted flounder, 162 Frigate mackerel, 102 Frog-fishes, 168 Frost fish, 153. 155 Fundulus diaphanus, 87 Fundulus heteroclitus, 86 Fundulus heteroclitus macro- lepidotus, ...
Rhode Island. Commissioners of Inland Fisheries, 1910
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Report
MONACANTHID^E. The Flleflshes. 147. Monacanthus hispidus (Linnaeus). Foolfish; File fish. GEOG. DIST. : Lynn, Massachusetts, to Cuba, through the West Indies to Brazil. In Massachusetts this species is recorded from several places along ...
Rhode Island. Commissioners of Inland Fisheries, 1910
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Contributions from the Biological Laboratory
Foolfish; Filejish. Geog. Dist.: Maine, to Florida and Texas. Recorded from Portland, Maine (Storer) ; from several localities on the Massachusetts shore ( Kendall, 1908) ; and in Connecticut, from Long Island Sound, Stratford, and Stonington ...
Brown University. Biological Laboratory, 1911
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Bulletin
THE ORANGE FILEFISH ONE of the most unique fishes of our fauna is the Orange Filefish (Alutera schoepfi), known also by a variety of local names, such as foolfish, leather- jacket, hambag-fish, old maid, living skeleton and sunfish.
New York Zoological Society, 1911
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The Fishes Found in the Vicinity of Woods Hole
The Woods Hole example is 1} inches long, and was obtained July 24, 1897, under a small piece of floating gulf-weed in Vineyard Sound off Great Harbor. MONA.CANTHID.ffi. The File-Fishes. 157. Monacanthus hispidus (Linmcus). Foolfish ...
Hugh McCormick Smith, 1898
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English Spellings and Spelling Rules
12111.; font-inful-us n., -u1-us-es. food n., foods. fool n., fools; fool 1)., foolfeat, fools, foolieilst, fooling, fooled, fth ,- £0014 ish 0., foolfish-er, foolfish-est; fool! ish- neaa 14.; foolfer-y n., -er-iea. foot #1., feet; foot 11., foot5eaf, fonts, footiedst, foofihg ...
James Stormonth

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOOLFISH»

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Watch camouflaged fish vanish in two seconds flat
As part of the study, Ms Allen and her colleagues were able to identify the technique used by the species, sometimes referred to as a “foolfish”. «9news.com.au, Jun 15»

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