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PRONUNCIATION OF MAYFISH

mayfish  [ˈmeɪˌfɪʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAYFISH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mayfish 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 MAYFISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mayfish in the English dictionary

The definition of mayfish in the dictionary is a common killifish, Fundulus majalis, of North America.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MAYFISH


blowfish
ˈbləʊˌfɪʃ
catfish
ˈkætˌfɪʃ
crawfish
ˈkrɔːˌfɪʃ
crayfish
ˈkreɪˌfɪʃ
dealfish
ˈdiːlˌfɪʃ
flatfish
ˈflætˌfɪʃ
goldfish
ˈɡəʊldˌfɪʃ
grayfish
ˈɡreɪˌfɪʃ
jellyfish
ˈdʒɛlɪˌfɪʃ
killifish
ˈkɪlɪˌfɪʃ
ladyfish
ˈleɪdɪˌfɪʃ
needlefish
ˈniːdəlˌfɪʃ
sailfish
ˈseɪlˌfɪʃ
shellfish
ˈʃɛlˌfɪʃ
starfish
ˈstɑːˌfɪʃ
stockfish
ˈstɒkˌfɪʃ
sunfish
ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ
swordfish
ˈsɔːdˌfɪʃ
triggerfish
ˈtrɪɡəˌfɪʃ
whitefish
ˈwaɪtˌfɪʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAYFISH

maybe
maybird
maybush
Mayday
Mayence
Mayenne
Mayer
mayest
Mayfair
mayflies
mayflower
mayfly
mayhap
mayhem
Mayhew
Maying
mayn´t
Mayo
Mayon
mayonnaise

WORDS THAT END LIKE MAYFISH

big fish
bluefish
box jellyfish
butterflyfish
drink like a fish
elfish
finfish
fish
flowerhorn fish
flying fish
kettle of fish
kingfish
milkfish
oafish
parrotfish
river fish
selfish
unselfish
wolfish
zebrafish

Synonyms and antonyms of mayfish in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mayfish» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MAYFISH

Find out the translation of mayfish to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mayfish from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mayfish» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

mayfish
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mayfish
570 millions of speakers

English

mayfish
510 millions of speakers

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mayfish
380 millions of speakers
ar

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mayfish
280 millions of speakers

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mayfish
278 millions of speakers

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mayfish
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

mayfish
260 millions of speakers

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mayfish
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mayfish
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mayfish
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

mayfish
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

mayfish
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mayfish
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

mayfish
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

mayfish
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेफिश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mayfish
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mayfish
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mayfish
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

mayfish
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mayfish
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

mayfish
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

mayfish
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

mayfish
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

mayfish
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mayfish

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAYFISH»

The term «mayfish» is used very little and occupies the 191.599 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MAYFISH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mayfish

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAYFISH»

Discover the use of mayfish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mayfish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Rhine: an eco-biography, 1815-2000
In 1893, 832 sturgeon were caught in the Rhine delta. That number dropped to 462 by 1903 and to a meager 28 by 1913." The allis shad is better known on the Rhine by its colloquial name "mayfish." A herring-like species, it spent most of its  ...
Mark Cioc, 2009
2
The Fishes of North and Middle America: A Descriptive ...
930. FUNDULUS MAJALIS (Walbaum). (Killifisii ; Mayfish ; Rockfish.) Head 3|; depth 4. D. 12; A. 10; scales 36-13. Body oblong, scarcely elevated, little compressed; head rather prolonged anteriorly; the mouth small, terminal, and very oblique ...
David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann, United States National Museum, 1896
3
Virtumnus romanus
Whereas now they doe little good out of that private house, -unlesse maintaine some decayed gentlewomen in good clothes to goflip up and owne 5 and like bels to ring their praises, that they mayfish one in ayeere to the disparage-ment of  ...
Daniel Teatley, 1642
4
Goldie, My Last Love
That chore is hasically completed. The wind is hlowingpretty hriskly, ifit calms down hefore sundown [ mayfish a little hit [have yet to hear hack on the timing ofthe call with the NYguy and he did askfirr some time this afternoon or evening.
Mitzi Mensch, 2012
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Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia, Comprehending a Complete ...
The membrane in~ closing the auditory pulp, howrvcr, isolways finer and weaker than in quadrupcds. in the mayfish it scarcely deserves the name of labyrinth. . in the cuttle-tish it is nearly as simple, and merely consists of an oval or roundish ...
‎1813
6
Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, ...
... in Example 3.26. Example 3.26 (a) Cause the Mayfish was anchored there; a terrible dreadnought, she was. (SAM/001) (b) They had all a good time. (SAM/ 001) Table 3.2 Distribution of zero marking of tense on stative Tagliamonte_c03. indd ...
Sali A. Tagliamonte, 2011
7
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and ...
KING CLAUDIUS Enough, enough! Alas, alas! HAMLET The sameworm that eats aking may become food forafish which serves asthe dinner for a cat. A man mayfish withthe wormthat eatof a king, hath andcatof thefishthat hath fedof that worm.
William Shakespeare, 2013
8
Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and ...
... the river most modified by human hands in the world. The Rhine that early Romantics had experienced contained thousands of islands, uncertain currents, underwater cliffs, acres of wetlands, and abundant salmon and mayfish populations.
Thomas M. LEKAN, Thomas M Lekan, 2009
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Vollständiges Wörterbuch Der Englischen Sprache Für Die ...
Qa-'elbuhl-l, des, a Wood-Ben, HazelHeu , Heath-Powt. Hdseling, ber, an eatable River-Fish that resembles the Ray and grows larger 'than a Herring: in some Place' it i' called Dbbel, o' Mayidal" fifth, which is a Pollard, a Gudgeon, a Mayfish.
Johann Ebers, 1798
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Delphi Complete Works of Frederick Marryat (Illustrated):
At last, findingthat I wouldnot enter into the business, she did, and toldme that shehad 17,000pounds Consolslaid by, and that thebusiness was worth 1,000 pounds per annum (you mayfish at Cheltenham along while, O'Donahue, beforeyou ...
Captain Frederick Marryat, 2014

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAYFISH»

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Paul Hastings Poaches Foursome, Plus More Lateral Moves
... its Belgian law offering by hiring corporate counsel YOLANDE MEYVIS in Brussels from MayFish Law, a firm she ran as managing partner. «The American Lawyer, Jul 15»

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