Definition of fish

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Fish (n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces..

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Kiddle :: Kiddle (n.) A kind of basketwork wear in a river, for catching fish..
Propterygium :: Propterygium (n.) The anterior of three principal cartilages in the fins of some fishes.
Abdominales :: Abdominales (n. pl.) A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals..
Afford :: Afford (v. t.) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish..
Pollan :: Pollan (n.) A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring..
Milter :: Milter (n.) A male fish.
Prefrontal :: Prefrontal (a.) Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes..
Squamoid :: Squamipen (n.) Any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.
Pollack :: Pollack (n.) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack..
Merman :: Merman (n.) The male corresponding to mermaid; a sea man, or man fish..
Horseman :: Horseman (n.) A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus)..
Percesoces :: Percesoces (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes..
Mudfish :: Mudfish (n.) The mud minnow.
Tench :: Tench (n.) A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life..
Box :: Box (n.) A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.
Cog :: Cog (n.) A small fishing boat.
Sweet :: Sweet (superl.) Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish..
Braize :: Braize (n.) A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
Croaker :: Croaker (n.) A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast..
Gig :: Gig (n.) A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.
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