Usually means: Fish used historically for oil.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. candlefish: Merriam-Webster
  2. candlefish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. candlefish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. candlefish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. candlefish: Wordnik
  6. candlefish: Wiktionary
  7. candlefish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. candlefish: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. candlefish: Dictionary.com
  10. candlefish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Candlefish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. candlefish: FreeDictionary.org
  13. candlefish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Candlefish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Candlefish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. candlefish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. candlefish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. candlefish: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (candlefish)

noun:  An oily edible fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, from the northern Pacific, that was once dried and used as a candle or torch by the Chinook Indians.

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