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)

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
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• 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.
• “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