icefish
icefish Lexical Profile
icefish Game Scores & Validity
• verb
North American To catch or attempt to catch fish through a hole cut in the ice of a frozen lake, river, or ocean.
"Every winter, the family travels to the frozen lake to icefish for trout and walleye."
• noun
Any of various marine fishes of the family Channichthyidae, native to the cold waters of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, uniquely characterized by their lack of red blood cells and hemoglobin.
"Marine biologists study the Antarctic icefish to understand its unique circulatory adaptations to sub-freezing ocean temperatures."
A small, nearly transparent freshwater or marine fish of the family Salangidae, found primarily in East Asia.
"The local market featured fresh, translucent icefish caught early that morning in the nearby river."
• Rhymes for icefish
Word Origin & Etymology
A compound of 'ice' and 'fish', referring either to the extreme polar environments where certain species live or to the practice of fishing through a hole in the ice.
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