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mudfish

mudfish

1 5.0
A fish that lives in muddy water and can survive with little oxygen or during dry times
  • noun
  • /ˈmʌdˌfɪʃ/
  • US
: pez barro
  • I spotted a mudfish swimming in the shallow, muddy water of the swamp.

Examples

  • A mudfish?

    Frankenstein Created Bikers (2016)

  • "Mudfish?"

    Fiction book (1991)

  • That is a mom mudfish with thousands of babies under her.

  • - Mudfish.

    Stone Cold (1991)

  • One bears even ceremonial swords, another crosses, and the third, mudfish.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Behind him, in the sloshing puddle inside the boat, is a glistening pile of mudfish.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • These are not mudfish or other small riverine species, but great and mighty fish symbolizing the power and fertility of Queen Mother Idia.

    Academic text (1993)

  • He wears a royal headdress patterned after the head and barbels of the mudfish, and a high odigba collar made of strands of sacred coral beads.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The mudfish can survive for weeks without water by burrowing into the mud.

  • During our fishing trip, we caught a mudfish that was well-adapted to the low-oxygen environment.

Synonyms

mudminnow
vsmudfish
  • Specialized
1 8.9

A small freshwater fish that lives in muddy or slow water and is used as bait

survives very low oxygen and dry periods showing greater hardiness

Surface Forms

mudfish singular
mudfish plural

Morphology

mudfish = mud + fish (transparent) = mud + fish

A straightforward compound of two common nouns; the sense is directly the combination 'mud' + 'fish'.

Etymology

The word mudfish is a simple English compound from mud ('soft wet earth') and fish ('a water animal'), so it literally names a fish that lives in mud. That's why mudfish refers to kinds of fish that live in muddy swamps and can survive low oxygen or dry seasons.