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

2 senses of wolffish

Sense 1
wolffish, wolf fish, catfish -- (large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins)
       => blennioid fish, blennioid -- (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)

Sense 2
lancetfish, lancet fish, wolffish -- (large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail)
       => soft-finned fish, malacopterygian -- (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)