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Toadfish

Definition: Toadfish

Toadfish

Noun

1. Bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Toadfish

Synonym: Opsanus tau (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Toadfish

English words defined with "toadfish": Batrachoidoyster fish, oysterfishSarpo, Sea toad, Singing fish. (references)
Specialty definitions using "toadfish": Tetrodotoxin. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Toadfish

Illustrations:
Toadfish

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Photo Album: Toadfish

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Plate 69. The Gulf Toadfish or "Sapo." Batrachus pardus, Goode & Bean. The Naked Star-gazer. Astrocopus anoplus (C.V.), Brevoort. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Toadfish

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

toadfish

14

oyster toadfish

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Toadfish

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Batrachoididae. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Toadfish

Derivations

Words beginning with "toadfish": toadfishes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Toadfish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tundish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Toadfish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-f-h-i-o-s-t"

-1 letter: toadish.

-2 letters: dhotis, faiths, oafish.

-3 letters: adios, adits, dashi, datos, dhoti, ditas, doats, doits, fados, faith, fatso, fiats, fidos, foist, hadst, hafis, hafts, hoist, hosta, iotas, oaths, odist, ohias, ostia, saith, shaft, shift, shoat, softa, staid, stoai, toads, tsadi.

-4 letters: adit, ados, aids, aits, daft, dahs, dais, dash, dato, dish, dita, dits, doat, doit.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-f-h-i-o-s-t"
 

+2 letters: toadfishes.

 

+3 letters: standoffish.

 

+4 letters: foolhardiest.

 

+5 letters: fountainheads, standoffishly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Toadfish


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 61 64 66 69 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ---    .-    -..    ..-.    ..    ...    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01100001 01100100 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#97 &#100 &#102 &#105 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0061 0064 0066 0069 0073 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5481677072758574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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