Fish

/ˈfɪʃ/ · noun

Meaning

(countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gill; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gill; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
2. (cladistically) Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
3. (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
4. (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
5. (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
6. (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
7. (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
8. (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.

Example Sentences

Salmon is a fish.

The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.

Ichthyologists study the fish of the world.

We have many fish in our aquarium.

The whale, the limpet, the tortoise and the oyster… as men have been willing to give them all the name of fishes, it is wisest for us to conform.

Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.

The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.

Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.

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• fish
• fishes
• fishing
• fished

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