weever

English

a weever (Trachinus draco)

Etymology

From Middle English *wever, from Old Northern French wivre (“serpent”), from Latin vīpera. Doublet of wyvern and viper.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.və/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈwi.vɚ/
Homophone: weaver
Rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)

Noun

weever (plural weevers)

Any of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past.

Synonyms

weeverfish, weaverfish

Derived terms

Translations

fish of Trachinidae

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: بَلَامَة f (balāma) (Egypt)
Bulgarian: морски дракон m (morski drakon)
Catalan: aranya (ca) f
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: louhikala (fi)
French: vive (fr) f
Galician: faneca brava (gl) f
German: Petermännchen (de) n
Greek: please add this translation if you can
Irish: ^{(please verify)} broid f
Italian: tracina (it) f
Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: ostrosz m
Russian: морско́й драко́н m (morskój drakón)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: па̏ӯк m, па̏уко̄вка f

Latin: pȁūk (sh) m, pȁukōvka f
Spanish: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: fjärsingfisk c
Turkish: please add this translation if you can

References

“weever”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
“weever”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
weever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Trachinidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Trachinidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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