assfish
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English
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Etymology
ass + fish, probably from a mistranslation of onus in the genus name Acanthonus, which is from Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (ákanthos, “acanthus”, literally “prickly flower”) + ὄνος (ónos, “hake”): the latter word can mean either an ass (donkey) or less commonly a type of fish.
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Noun
assfish (countable and uncountable, plural assfish or assfishes)
- Any of several types of fish:
- bony-eared assfish, Acanthonus armatus
- cavernous assfish, Porogadus gracilis
- any of various species in the genus Bassozetus:
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References
- ^ Liz Langley (2016 March 12) “What'd You Call Me? Meet the Bony-Eared Assfish”, in Weird Animal Question of the Week, National Geographic