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Definition: Lumpfish |
LumpfishNoun1. Clumsy soft thick-bodied North Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Lumpfish \Lump"fish`\, noun. [From Lump, on account of its bulkiness: compare to German Dutch lump, French lompe.]. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| LUM | English | Lumpfish | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: LumpfishSynonym: Cyclopterus lumpus (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: lumpsucker (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
Crosswords: Lumpfish |
| English words defined with "lumpfish": Cock-padle ♦ Liparis liparis ♦ Paddlecock ♦ Sea owl, sea snail, seasnail, snailfish. (references) |
| "Lumpfish" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Lumpfish" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lumpfish | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lumpfish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | stenbider (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen), kvabso (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen). (various references) | |
Dutch | strontvreter (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen), steenkruiper (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen), snotolf (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen), snotdolf (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen). (various references) | |
Finnish | rasvakala (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen). (various references) | |
French | lompe (lumpsucker), lièvre de mer (lumpsucker), poule de mer (lumpsucker), mollet (lumpsucker), gros seigneur (lumpsucker), \LUM (lumpsucker). (various references) | |
German | Lumpfisch (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen), Lump (crumb, rogue), Seehase (lumpsucker). (various references) | |
Greek | κοτόψαρο (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen). (various references) | |
Italian | lompo (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen), ciclottero (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umpfishlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | peixe-lapa (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen). (various references) | |
Spanish | lompo (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen), ciclóptero (henfish, lumpsucker, paddlecock, sea hen). (various references) | |
Swedish | sjurygg (lumpsucker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cyclopterus lumpus, Cyclopterus lumpus (Linnaeus). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lumpfish": lumpfishes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-h-i-l-m-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: lumpish. | |
-2 letters: flumps, mulish, shlump. | |
-3 letters: films, filum, flips, flump, flush, fusil, hilum, hilus, humps, limps, lumps, pilus, plums, plush, pulis, slump. | |
-4 letters: film, fils, fish, flip, flus, hips, hump, hums, imps, limp, lips, lisp, lump, lums, lush, mils, mush, pfui, phis, pish, plum, plus, puli, puls, push, shim, ship, shul, simp, slim, slip. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-h-i-l-m-p-s-u" | |
+2 letters: lumpfishes. | |
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