The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
batfish
(noun) bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
Source: WordNet® 3.1
batfish (plural batfishes or batfish)
Any of several anglerfish of the family Ogcocephalidae
Any of several spade-shaped, laterally compressed, reef-dwelling tropical fish of the genus Platax.
• (anglerfish): sea bat, bat fish (relatively rare), ogcocephalid
• (anglerfish): longnose batfish (Ogcocephalus corniger), red-lipped batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini), rosy-lipped batfish (Ogcocephalus porrectus)
Source: Wiktionary
Bat"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 May 2025
(noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.