Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun devilfish

3 senses of devilfish

Sense 1
grey whale, gray whale, devilfish, Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus -- (medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific)
       => baleen whale, whalebone whale -- (whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water)

Sense 2
octopus, devilfish -- (bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles)
       => octopod -- (a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell)

Sense 3
manta, manta ray, devilfish -- (extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned)
       => ray -- (cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins)