a North Atlantic scorpaenoid fish, Cyclopterus lumpus, having a globular body covered with tubercles, pelvic fins fused into a sucker, and an edible roe: family Cyclopteridae
2.
any other fish of the family Cyclopteridae
Also called: lumpsucker
Word origin
C16: lump (now obsolete) lumpfish, from Middle Dutch lumpe, perhaps related to lump1
lumpfish in American English
(ˈlʌmpˌfɪʃ)
nounWord forms: pluralˈlumpˌfish or ˈlumpˌfishes
any of several sluggish, marine percoid fishes (family Cyclopteridae), esp. a large N Atlantic species (Cyclopterus lumpus), usually having a heavy body with hard spines, lumps, and a powerful ventral sucker
: also called ˈlumpˌsucker
Word origin
prob. so called from the bony tubercles
Examples of 'lumpfish' in a sentence
lumpfish
She's been doing lumpfish processing at the fish plant to fill in---when there's work---and then scraping along on unemployment insurance.