"weever" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈwiː.və/ [UK], /ˈwi.vɚ/ [US] Forms: weevers [plural]
Rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English *wever, from Old Northern French wivre (“serpent”), from Latin vīpera. Doublet of wyvern and viper. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|*wever}} Middle English *wever, {{der|en|fro-nor|wivre||serpent}} Old Northern French wivre (“serpent”), {{der|en|la|vīpera}} Latin vīpera, {{doublet|en|wyvern}} Doublet of wyvern, {{m|en|viper}} viper Head templates: {{en-noun}} weever (plural weevers)
  1. Any of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past. Categories (lifeform): Trachinoid fish Synonyms: weeverfish, weaverfish Derived forms: Cape Verde weever, greater weever, Guinean weever, lesser weever, sailfin weever, spotted weever (taxonomic: Trachinus araneus), starry weever, striped weever Translations (fish of Trachinidae): بَلَامَة (balāma) [Egypt, feminine] (Arabic), морски дракон (morski drakon) [masculine] (Bulgarian), aranya [feminine] (Catalan), louhikala (Finnish), vive [feminine] (French), faneca brava [feminine] (Galician), Petermännchen [neuter] (German), tracina [feminine] (Italian), ostrosz [masculine] (Polish), морско́й драко́н (morskój drakón) [masculine] (Russian), па̏ӯк [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), па̏уко̄вка [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pȁūk [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pȁukōvka [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), fjärsingfisk [common-gender] (Swedish)

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