"beardfish" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Wikispecies beardfish [canonical], beardfishes [plural], beardfish [plural]
Etymology: From beard + fish. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|beard|fish}} beard + fish Head templates: {{en-noun|+|beardfish}} beardfish (plural beardfishes or beardfish)
  1. Any of various deep-sea fish, of the family Polymixiidae, that have a pair of long hyoid barbels. Wikipedia link: beardfish Categories (lifeform): Fish Translations (fish of the Polymixiidae family): partakala (Finnish), Bartfisch [masculine] (German)

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