Noun: whalefish
| Singular | whalefish |
| Plural | whalefishes; whalefish |
Sample Sentences
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In Baffin's Bay where the whale-fish blow,
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The fate of Franklin no man may know [ca. 1855, anonymous author, “Lord Franklin”:]
Nouns inflected like whalefish
gallowglass,
secesh,
icefish,
ghostfish,
neon fish,
New English,
combfish,
zebrafish,
walking catfish,
rose fish,
granofels,
elephant trunkfish,
medusafish,
Mississippi catfish,
boxfish,
weeverfish,
greenfish,
stone fish,
stone-fish,
bannerfish, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From whale + fish. Compare West Frisian walfisk, Dutch walvis (“whale”), German Low German Waalfisch, German Walfisch (“whale”), Danish hvalfisk (“whale”), Icelandic hvalfiskur. See: Dutch Nouns '
walvis', German Nouns '
Walfisch', Icelandic Nouns '
hvalfiskur'.