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- [gi-tahr-fish]
- /gɪˈtɑrˌfɪʃ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [gi-tahr-fish]
- /gɪˈtɑrˌfɪʃ/
Definitions of guitarfish word
- noun plural guitarfish any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape. 1
- noun guitarfish A fish of shallow warm seas, related to the rays and having a guitarlike body shape. 1
- noun guitarfish any marine sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, having a guitar-shaped body with a stout tail and occurring at the bottom of the sea 0
- noun guitarfish any of an order (Rhinobatiformes) of cartilaginous fishes with a long, narrow sharklike tail and a broad raylike body 0
- noun guitarfish Any of the fish in the Rhinobatidae family of rays. 0
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Origin of guitarfish
First appearance:
before 1900 One of the 17% newest English words
First recorded in 1900-05; guitar + fish
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Parts of speech for Guitarfish
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guitarfish popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 61% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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