threadfin

English

Etymology

From thread +‎ fin. Named so because of the thread-like free sensory filaments at the base of each of their pectoral fins.

Noun

threadfin (plural threadfins or threadfin)

1. Any of many perciform fish of the family Polynemidae.

Derived terms

• African blackspot threadfin
• Arabian blackspot threadfin
• Atlantic threadfin
• Australian threadfin
• black-finned threadfin
• blackspot threadfin
• eightfinger threadfin
• giant African threadfin
• Indian sevenfinger threadfin
• Indian threadfin
• Javanese threadfin
• king threadfin
• largemouth striped threadfin
• lesser African threadfin
• littlescale threadfin
• long-limb threadfin
• paradise threadfin
• Persian blackspot threadfin
• river threadfin
• royal threadfin
• sevenfinger threadfin
• Sheridan's threadfin
• sixfinger threadfin
• slender fivefinger threadfin
• small-mouthed threadfin
• splendid threadfin
• striped threadfin
• threefinger threadfin
• yellowthread threadfin

 

Translations

fish of the family Polynemidae

• Bulgarian: пръстопер m (prǎstoper)
• Japanese: 燕鰶 (ツバメコノシロ, tsubamekonoshiro)

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