weever

English

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)

1. 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

• Cape Verde weever
• greater weever
• Guinean weever
• lesser weever
• sailfin weever
• spotted weever (Trachinus araneus)
• starry weever
• streaked weever
• striped weever

Translations

fish of Trachinidae

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: بَلَامَة f (balāma) (Egypt) Asturian: escorpión (ast), pexegafu (ast) 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: δράκαινα (el) f (drákaina) Irish: (please verify) broid f Italian: tracina (it) f, trachino (it) m Norwegian: please add this translation if you can Polish: ostrosz m Portuguese: peixe-aranha 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.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “weever”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• weever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trachinidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Trachinidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons