Fish synonyms

piscis (Latin)

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trout (related)

Any of several other troutlike fishes

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shrimp (related)

Any of various small, chiefly marine, often edible decapod crustaceans that have a laterally compressed, elongated body with long antennae and long legs used for swimming. The shrimps include species belonging to the superfamily Penaeoidea of the suborder Dendrobranchiata and to the infraorder Caridea of the suborder Pleocyemata.

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piscine

Relating to or characteristic of fishes.

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bait the hook

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seafood

(Uncountable, countable) Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.

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clam

To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

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net

To catch or ensnare in a net:

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hint

To give a hint:

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bob

To try to catch suspended or floating fruit with the teeth

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bass (related)

The definition of bass is the lowest part of the musical scale.

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darter

A thing or animal that darts

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capelin

Mallotus villosus, a type of smelt found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

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ichthyological

Of or pertaining to ichthyology. Adjective form of ichthyology.

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ichthyophagous

(Biology) feeding on fish

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piscatorial

Of fishes, fishermen, or fishing

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panfish

Any small fish that can be fried whole in a pan

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one of the finny tribe

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cast one's hook

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whale

To flog, to beat.

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cast one's net

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bait up

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lobster (related)

The flesh of a lobster used as food.

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oyster (related)

Any of several edible bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having a rough, irregularly shaped shell attached to the substrate in shallow marine waters. Oysters are widely cultivated for food.

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turtle (related)

(Australia, UK) A sea turtle.

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ask (related)

To expect or demand:

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go fishing

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finny prey

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troll

(Intransitive, fishing, by extension) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling; to lure fish with bait. [from circa 1600]

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carp

To complain or find fault in a petty or nagging way

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ling

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pisces

Pisces is a water sign.

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dap

(Bristolian) To run or go somewhere quickly.

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angle

(Informal) To give a specific point of view to (a story, report, etc.)

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denizen of the deep

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fly-cast

To cast artificial flies with a fly rod, as in fishing.

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trawl

To fish from a slow moving boat.

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seine

To use a seine, to fish with a seine.

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ichthyoid

Like a fish

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fry

A french fry:

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ichthyolite

A fossil of a fish.

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tuna

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porbeagle

A large, fierce mackerel shark (Lamna nasus) of the N Atlantic, that brings forth living young

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piscivorous

Habitually feeding on fish. Terns and cormorants are piscivorous birds.

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alewife

Any of several species similar in appearance.

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halieutic

Of or pertaining to fishing.

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ichthyic

Of, pertaining to, or like fish; piscine.

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piscatory

Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.

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(fossilfish). fishes

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alevin (young fish)

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monilife

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nekton

(Zoology) A generic term for organisms in the ocean that are capable of swimming independently of currents.

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run

A continuous length or extent of something:

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shoal

The definition of a shoal is a large group, particularly of fish, or a sandy, shallow area of water.

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spawn

A product or an outcome:

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cast

(Archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.

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dab

To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.

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dace

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drail

(Obsolete) To trail; to draggle.

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eel

To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.

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gill

To gut or clean (fish).

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gudgeon

To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe.

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ide

A suffix used to form the names of various chemical compounds, especially the second part of the name of a compound that has two members (such as sodium chloride ) or the name of a general type of compound (such as polysaccharide ).

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poach (fish unlawfully)

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poisson

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scrod

(Nonstandard, New England, humorous) Simple past tense and past participle of screw.

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scup

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shad

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smelt

To refine or extract (metal) in this way

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snapper

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sole

To put the sole of (a golf club) on the ground, as in preparing to make a stroke.

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Pisces the Fishes

the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

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albacore

A tuna (Thunnus alalunga) with unusually long pectoral fins, important as a game and food fish in all warm seas; loosely, other similar scombroid fishes

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archerfish

Any of a family (Toxotidae) of freshwater percoid fishes of Australasia

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barracuda

Any of a family (Sphyraenidae) of fierce, pikelike percoid fishes of tropical seas: some species are edible

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bluegill

An edible sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) of North American lakes and streams, having a dark spot on the dorsal fin.

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bonito

A large tropical fish, the skipjack, allied to the tunny, Katsuwonus pelamis.

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bowfin

A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States.

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bream

An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.

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bullhead

Any of several stocky North American freshwater catfishes of the genus Ameiurus, having a tail that is not forked.

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catfish

Any of numerous scaleless, chiefly freshwater fishes of the order Siluriformes, characteristically having whiskerlike barbels extending from the upper jaw.

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chimaera

Chimera

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chub

By extension, various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.

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cisco

Any of various trouts (esp. genus Coregonus) found in the colder lakes of the NE U.S. and of Canada

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cobia

A large, voracious percoid game fish (Rachycentron canadum) found in warm seas: it has a conspicuous black stripe along each side of the body

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coelacanth

Any of various fishes of the group Coelacanthiformes or Actinistia, having lobed, fleshy fins. Coelacanths are crossopterygians, the ancient group of lobe-finned fishes that gave rise to land vertebrates. They were known only from Paleozoic and Mesozoic fossils until a living species ( Latimeria chalumnae ) was found in the Indian Ocean in 1938. A second Latimeria species was described in 1999.

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crappie

Either of two edible North American sunfishes, the black crappie or the white crappie.

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eelpout

Any of a family (Zoarcidae, order Gadiformes) of marine bony fishes that resemble eels

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goby

Any of a family (Gobiidae) of small, predatory, spiny-finned percoid fishes of tropical and subtropical seas: the pelvic fins are united as a suction disk that clings to rocky surfaces

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grouper

Any of several large sea basses (esp. genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca) found in warm seas

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hake

One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.

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herring

A surname.

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lamprey

Any of an order (Petromyzoniformes) of jawless fishes with a funnel-shaped mouth surrounded by rasping teeth with which it bores into the flesh of other fishes to suck their blood

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muskellunge

A large freshwater gamefish of the pike family, native to the lakes and rivers of eastern and middle western North America; Esox masquinongy.

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oquassa

(Archaic, zoology) A small, handsome trout, Salvelinus oquassa, found in some of the lakes in Maine. [fell out of use around 1920]

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pickerel

Any of various small, North American pike fishes (genus Esox)

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piranha

Any of various small South American freshwater bony fishes (family Serrasalmidae, order Cypriniformes) having strong jaws and very sharp teeth: they hunt in schools, attacking any animals, including human beings

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plaice

The flatfish, Hippoglossoides platessoides, of the North American Atlantic; the American plaice.

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pompano

Peprilus simillimus, the Pacific pompano.

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porgy

Any of a family (Sparidae) of marine percoid food fishes having spiny fins and a wide body covered with large scales, as the scup, the pinfish, and the sheepshead

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redfin

Any of various fishes having reddish fins, as a pickerel (Esox americanus) of E North America

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redfish

Any of various fishes with a reddish coloration, as the red drum

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sturgeon

Any of various large freshwater and marine fishes of the family Acipenseridae of the Northern Hemisphere, having ganoid scales and edible flesh and valued for their roe, which is used for caviar, and their swim bladders, which are used to make isinglass.

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turbot

Any of various other flatfishes of family Scophthalmidae that are found in marine or brackish waters.

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veiltail

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wahoo

A deciduous shrub or small tree (Euonymus atropurpureus) of eastern North America, having small purplish flowers, pink fruit containing scarlet arils, and red foliage in the autumn.

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whiting

Any of various marine food fishes having delicate white flesh, especially several hakes of the genus Merluccius and several kingfishes of the genus Menticirrhus.

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fingerling

Anything very small or trifling

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globefish

Any of various fishes, especially an ocean sunfish or a pufferfish, having or capable of assuming a globular shape.

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bait (related)

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mussel (related)

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mackerel (related)

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and-fish (related)

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game-fish (related)

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barramundi (related)

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cod (related)

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sand-eels (related)

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bloodworm (related)

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