handfish
1 of 2noun
: a fish of the family Brachionichthyidae
handfish
2 of 2intransitive verb
: to catch fish with the hands sometimes with bait as a lure : guddle
Word History
Etymology
Noun
hand entry 1 + fish (noun); from the pectoral fins that resemble hands
Intransitive verb
hand entry 1 + fish (verb)
- colourableness
- colourablenesses
- colourant
- colourants
- colouration
- colourational
- colourations
- colourative
- colouratura
- colouraturas
- colourblindness
- colourblindnesses
- colourbred
- colourbreed
- colourbreeding
- colourbreeds
- colourcast
- colourcasted
- colourcasting
- colourcasts
- coloured
- coloureds
- colourer
- colourers
- colourest