Noun: cockfish
| Singular | cockfish |
| Plural | cockfish; cockfishes |
Sample Sentences
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Spawning fish on the redds. A henfish will often be attended by two or three cockfish – whilst displaying ritual combat between themselves, one cock will mate, others may follow [image caption] [2005, Roderick Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, “Life in the Nursery”, in Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 23:]
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Morphology of the main digestive features of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus, is described and linked to feeding habits. […] The diet of the cockfish is compared with that of other holocephalans. [1996, Edgardo E. Di Gitlcomo, Maria Raquel Perier, “Feeding habits of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus (Holocephali: Callorhynchidae), in Patagonian waters (Argentina)”, in Marine and Freshwater Research, volume 47, number 6, →DOI, page 801:]
Nouns inflected like cockfish
saltus,
beta fish,
paleofish,
airbreathing catfish,
black rhinoceros,
torrentfish,
megahertz,
pan fish,
solar plexus,
peltops,
yellow perch,
numb-nuts,
springfish,
pilot fish,
FPS,
janitor fish,
seafish,
parados,
Mediterranean parrotfish,
cockfish, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From cock + fish.