Definition of Frost fish

1. Noun. Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel.

Exact synonyms: Cutlassfish, Hairtail
Generic synonyms: Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean
Group relationships: Family Trichiuridae, Trichiuridae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frost Fish

frore
froren
frorn
frorne
frory
fros
frosh
froshed
froshes
froshing
frosk
frost
frost-blite
frost-bound
frost-weed
frost fish (current term)
frost heave
frost heaving
frost itch
frost mist
frost over
frost snow
frost up
frostberg inverted-three sign
frostbird
frostbirds
frostbit
frostbite
frostbites
frostbiting

Literary usage of Frost fish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travel and Talk, 1885-93-95: My Hundred Thousand Miles of Travel Through by Hugh Reginald Haweis (1897)
"XLV THE frost fish.—When at Napier, NZ, my good friend Dr. Moore burst in upon me ... No instance on record of a frost fish ever being taken by net or line, ..."

2. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"... vast numbers with the first frost and is hence quite as well known as Frost Fish ; thus we hear it said: "Here we inet with large schools of frost fish, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"FROST-FISH, a name given to various fishes, because they appear at the time of early ... The frost-fish of New Zealand is one of the scabbard-fishes (qv). ..."

4. Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections of the American by American Antiquarian Society (1860)
"He says, "Some call them frost-fish, from their coming up from the sea into fresh brooks in times of frost and snow. ..."

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