See oilfish in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "oil",
"3": "fish"
},
"expansion": "oil + fish",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From oil + fish.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "oilfishes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "oilfish",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "+",
"2": "*"
},
"expansion": "oilfish (plural oilfishes or oilfish)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Scombroids",
"orig": "en:Scombroids",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Baikal oilfish"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A snake mackerel (Ruvettus pretiosus), having a high content of wax esters instead of glyceride oils."
],
"id": "en-oilfish-en-noun-HyIbLgn-",
"links": [
[
"snake mackerel",
"snake mackerel"
],
[
"wax",
"wax"
],
[
"ester",
"ester"
],
[
"glyceride",
"glyceride"
],
[
"oil",
"oil"
]
]
}
],
"word": "oilfish"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "Baikal oilfish"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "oil",
"3": "fish"
},
"expansion": "oil + fish",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From oil + fish.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "oilfishes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "oilfish",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "+",
"2": "*"
},
"expansion": "oilfish (plural oilfishes or oilfish)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English indeclinable nouns",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Scombroids"
],
"glosses": [
"A snake mackerel (Ruvettus pretiosus), having a high content of wax esters instead of glyceride oils."
],
"links": [
[
"snake mackerel",
"snake mackerel"
],
[
"wax",
"wax"
],
[
"ester",
"ester"
],
[
"glyceride",
"glyceride"
],
[
"oil",
"oil"
]
]
}
],
"word": "oilfish"
}
Download raw JSONL data for oilfish meaning in English (1.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.