Weever Definition

wēvər
noun
Any of a family (Trachinidae) of edible, marine percoid fishes with sharp, very poisonous spines on the gill cover and the first dorsal fin.
Webster's New World

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

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Other Word Forms of Weever

Noun

Singular:
weever
Plural:
weevers

Origin of Weever

  • From Old French/Old Northern French wivre (“serpent"), from Latin vÄ«pera. See also wyvern.

    From Wiktionary

  • Old North French wivre serpent, weever wyvern

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Weever Sentence Examples

  • The greater weever has darker brown or blue diagonal streaks.

  • If the view that the sole is protected by the blackness of the pectoral fin resembling the blackness of the dorsal fin of the weever, be correct, these fishes furnish an instance of Batesian mimicry.

  • The dorsal fin of the lesser weever is all black, while that of the greater weever is dark only at the tip.

  • Weever fish are silvery with a black venomous fin and spines.

  • The authors noted Raynaud 's phenomenon only on the affected finger occurring some weeks after the weever fish sting.

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