Fish

Quick meaning: Fish is a noun meaning (cladistically) Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.

Meaning

(cladistically) Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.

More Meanings

1. (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
2. (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
3. (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
4. (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
5. (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.
6. (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.
7. (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

Example Sentences

Salmon is a fish.

We have many fish in our aquarium.

Ichthyologists study the fish of the world.

The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.

Word Forms

• fishes
• fishing
• fished

Synonyms for fish

Depending on context, synonyms include mark, donkey, donk, angle, rifle, rummage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gull, sucker, shlemiel, mark, chump, schlemiel.

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