weever

Meaning

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.

Translations

pieterman

cantharus

vive

Trachinus

pietermannen

Peixe-Aranha

escorpión

🦂

Petermännchen

çarpanbalığı

trachinidé

tracina

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwiː.və/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: *wever

In summary

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