nounWord forms: plural -fish or -fishesa large brightly coloured deep-sea percoid food fish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, of warm and tropical seas, esp the North American coast of the Atlantic: family Branchiostegidae
Word origin
C19: from New Latin
-tilus, ending of genus name
Lopholatilus; perhaps also from a resemblance between its colours and patterning and ornamentaltiles