fish

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fish[1,noun] fish[2,verb] Fish bony fish buffalo[1,noun] butterfly fish cartilaginous fish clown fish coarse fish cold fish

Main Entry: ¹fish
Pronunciation: 'fish
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural fish or fish·es
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fisc; akin to Old High German fisc fish, Latin piscis
1 a : an aquatic animal -- usually used in combination <starfish> <cuttlefish> b : any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony fishes and usually the cartilaginous and jawless fishes and that have typically an elongated somewhat spindle-shaped body terminating in a broad caudal fin, limbs in the form of fins when present at all, and a 2-chambered heart by which blood is sent through thoracic gills to be oxygenated
2 : the flesh of fish used as food
3 a : a person who is caught or is wanted (as in a criminal investigation) b : FELLOW, PERSON <an odd fish> c : SUCKER 5a
4 : something that resembles a fish: as a plural, capitalized : PISCES 1; also : PISCES 2a b : TORPEDO 2b
- fish·less /'fish-l&s/ adjective
- fish·like /-"lIk/ adjective
- fish out of water : a person who is in an unnatural or uncomfortable sphere or situation
- fish to fry : concerns or interests to pursue -- usually used with other
- neither fish nor fowl : one that does not belong to a particular class or category
[fish illustration]