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Meaning of "mudfish" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MUDFISH

mudfish  [ˈmʌdˌfɪʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUDFISH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Mudfish 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 MUDFISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mudfish

Mudfish may refer to any of many different fishes, including: ▪ In New Zealand and Australia: ▪ Neochanna species ▪ In North America: ▪ Amia calva ▪ In South America: ▪ Lepidosiren paradoxa ▪ In Africa: ▪ Labeo capensisProtopterus species ▪ Parachanna species ▪ Clarias anguillaris ▪ In Europe and Asia: ▪ Misgurnus species ▪ Channa species ▪ In fiction: ▪ Mudkip, a Pokémon inspired by mudfish which became an internet meme...

Definition of mudfish in the English dictionary

The definition of mudfish in the dictionary is any of various fishes, such as the bowfin and cichlids, that live at or frequent the muddy bottoms of rivers, lakes, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MUDFISH


blindfish
ˈblaɪndˌfɪʃ
blowfish
ˈbləʊˌfɪʃ
catfish
ˈkætˌfɪʃ
codfish
ˈkɒdˌfɪʃ
crawfish
ˈkrɔːˌfɪʃ
dealfish
ˈdiːlˌfɪʃ
goldfish
ˈɡəʊldˌfɪʃ
groundfish
ˈɡraʊndˌfɪʃ
houndfish
ˈhaʊndˌfɪʃ
jellyfish
ˈdʒɛlɪˌfɪʃ
redfish
ˈrɛdˌfɪʃ
sandfish
ˈsændˌfɪʃ
scaldfish
ˈskɔːldˌfɪʃ
shellfish
ˈʃɛlˌfɪʃ
spadefish
ˈspeɪdˌfɪʃ
starfish
ˈstɑːˌfɪʃ
studfish
ˈstʌdˌfɪʃ
swordfish
ˈsɔːdˌfɪʃ
toadfish
ˈtəʊdˌfɪʃ
whitefish
ˈwaɪtˌfɪʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MUDFISH

muddleheaded
muddleheadedly
muddleheadedness
muddlement
muddler
muddling
muddlingly
muddly
muddy
mudeye
mudflats
mudflow
mudge
mudguard
mudhole
mudhook
mudir
mudiria
mudlark
mudlogger

WORDS THAT END LIKE MUDFISH

baitfish
big fish
crayfish
drink like a fish
elfish
finfish
fish
flatfish
flowerhorn fish
flying fish
needlefish
oafish
red bandfish
river fish
selfish
stockfish
sunfish
triggerfish
unselfish
zebrafish

Synonyms and antonyms of mudfish in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mudfish» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MUDFISH

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

Translator English - Chinese

泥鳅
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mudfish
570 millions of speakers

English

mudfish
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

mudfish
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

mudfish
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Ильная рыба
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mudfish
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

mudfish
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mudfish
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mudfish
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mudfish
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

mudfish
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

미꾸라지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mudfish
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mudfish
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

mudfish
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मुदफिश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mudfish
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mudfish
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mudfish
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ільного риба
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mudfish
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mudfish
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

moddervis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mudfish
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mudfish
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mudfish

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MUDFISH»

The term «mudfish» is normally little used and occupies the 117.417 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MUDFISH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mudfish» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mudfish» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUDFISH»

Discover the use of mudfish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mudfish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Animal Coloration: Activities on the Evolution of Concealment
Living in the same habitat as the mudfish were other fish that we shall call predator fish. The predator fish ate young mudfish. Fortunately, however, the predator fish needed only so much food, and so there were always some young mudfish ...
Robert Cyril Stebbins, D. C. Ipsen, Gretchen Gillfillan, 2008
2
New Zealand Freshwater Fishes: an Historical and Ecological ...
to, parts of the surrounding range of the black mudfish. Ling and Gleeson (2001) suggested that the burgundy mudfish is restricted to the Kerikeri volcanic plateau at elevations around 200 m, but more recent discoveries show that it is rather ...
Robert Montgomery McDowall, 2010
3
African Fly-fishing Handbook
commonly taken in southern Africa, the Orange River mudfish is often reported by fly-fishers, and the rednose mudfish is deliberately hunted by a small band of fly- fishers. The other species, with the exception of those listed below, are seldom ...
Bill Hansford-Steele, 2004
4
Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole
Mudfish say, 'Bra unoo carry me go wid unoo, no?' Pigeon dem say, 'Cho, mudfish! tan where you day, man. What you da go do da cornpiece!' Mudfish would'nt satisfy; him tan dere da shoreside, so pigeon dem come da waterside come drink ...
Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa, 2009
5
Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries
When dem catch da cornpiece, dem put Mudfish da ground; den so de pigeon dem da eat com a top, Mudfish da da bottom da pick up wha drop, da eat. When dem all busy da eat, yery word come say 'Watchman da come;' pigeon dem begin  ...
Jean D'Costa, Barbara Lalla, 2009
6
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Jniirnal of the Royal Society o/ New Zealand. 1975, Vol. 5, No. I, pp. 21-30, 4 figs Distribution and Ecology of the Canterbury Mudfish, Neochanna burrowsius ( Phillipps) (Salmoniformes: Galaxiidae) PHILIP L. CADWALLADER Department of  ...
7
The Anthropology of Art
Figure 17 Benin brass casting (West Africa): plaque showing Oba with legs as mudfish, gripping leopards by the tail. mudfish in the place of legs (Fig. 17). The heads of the fish curve upwards on either side of his body. Sometimes he is shown ...
Robert Layton, 1991
8
2014 Poet's Market
Website: www.mudfish.org. Contact: Jill Hoffman, editor. Responds in 3 months. MAGAZINE'S NEEDS Mudfish, published annually by Box Turtle Press, is an annual journal of poetry and art. Wants “free verse with energy, intensity, and ...
Robert Lee Brewer, 2013
9
Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan ...
They may have represented sacrifices made at the various palace ceremonies or creatures and objects whose symbolic qualities express the powers of the Oba. The mudfish depicted in cat. nos. 49 to 51 served both purposes. One of the most  ...
Kate Ezra, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1992
10
New Zealand Journal of Zoology
Since the volume of water used was small in relation to the mass of the mudfish, and BOD was low, we did not find it necessary to subtract these small blank values from the measured VO2. DISCUSSION When head and body are externally ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUDFISH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mudfish is used in the context of the following news items.
1
South Carolina editorial roundup
North Fork of the Edisto River - Eat no bowfin (mudfish); no more than one meal per month of chain pickerel, warmouth and largemouth bass; ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
2
Purple Emperor: The butterfly that feeds on rotting flesh
Sometimes he adds pickled mudfish. People try "all sorts of ridiculous things" to bait Purple Emperors to the ground for a much coveted shot of ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
3
Best bet for fishing: Nighttime bottom fishing for snappers on the …
A few anglers are catching 100 fish a day that have included a variety of panfish, gars, pickerel and mudfish. The fish are attacking Rapala F07 ... «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
4
Warnings about mercury in fish not to be ignored
The types of fish affected include primarily bowfin (mudfish) and largemouth bass, but species such as catfish, bluegill sunfish and redear ... «The Times and Democrat, Jul 15»
5
Domoguen: 2015 is International Year of Soils
The biological elements are a myriad of worms, adult and larvae of water insects, indigenous fishes, shells, frogs, and mudfish. The chemical ... «Sun.Star, Jul 15»
6
Betraying their people
... said that their creek and river have turned orange-brown with toxic wastes and the locals can no longer catch mudfish, snails and prawns as ... «Manila Standard Today, Jul 15»
7
Sabang Gibong: Surviving the flood
They grow corn and other vegetables in rich loamy land and fish for “halwan” (mudfish), “pantat” (catfish) and giant carps in the two rivers. «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
8
North wetlands 'declining fast'
DISAPPEARING: NorthTec student Nina Pivac looking for the rare black mudfish in the Hikurangi Swamp earlier this year. Last week's briefing ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
9
DHEC warns against consumption of certain fish due to mercury
DHEC recommends that individuals eat no more than one meal per month of Bowfin, or mudfish, caught in the Intracoastal Waterway, and no ... «Live 5 News, Jul 15»
10
DHEC updates warnings about mercury in fish
North Fork of the Edisto River — Eat no bowfin (mudfish); no more than one meal per month of chain pickerel, warmouth and largemouth bass; ... «The Times and Democrat, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Mudfish [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/mudfish>. May 2024 ».
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