Fish synonyms
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piscis (Latin)
trout (related)
Any of several other troutlike fishes
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.
bait the hook
To catch or ensnare in a net:
bass (related)
The definition of bass is the lowest part of the musical scale.
ichthyological
Of or pertaining to ichthyology. Adjective form of ichthyology.
bait up
turtle (related)
(Australia, UK) A sea turtle.
whale (related)
(Informal) An impressive example:
To give a hint:
panfish
Any small fish that can be fried whole in a pan
one of the finny tribe
To try to catch suspended or floating fruit with the teeth
To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
cast one's hook
cast one's net
lobster (related)
The flesh of a lobster used as food.
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.
ask (related)
To expect or demand:
go fishing
finny prey
Of fishes, fishermen, or fishing
piscine
Relating to or characteristic of fishes.
To complain or find fault in a petty or nagging way
capelin
Mallotus villosus, a type of smelt found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
A thing or animal that darts
(Informal) To give a specific point of view to (a story, report, etc.)
denizen of the deep
fly-cast
To cast artificial flies with a fly rod, as in fishing.
seine
To use a seine, to fish with a seine.
Pisces is a water sign.
alewife
Any of several species similar in appearance.
halieutic
Of or pertaining to fishing.
ichthyoid
Like a fish
piscivorous
Habitually feeding on fish. Terns and cormorants are piscivorous birds.
(fossilfish). fishes
alevin (young fish)
A french fry:
monilife
nekton
(Zoology) A generic term for organisms in the ocean that are capable of swimming independently of currents.
A continuous length or extent of something:
The definition of a shoal is a large group, particularly of fish, or a sandy, shallow area of water.
A product or an outcome:
(Archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.
To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
dace
eel
To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.
To gut or clean (fish).
To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe.
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 ).
poach (fish unlawfully)
poisson
scrod
(Nonstandard, New England, humorous) Simple past tense and past participle of screw.
shad
To refine or extract (metal) in this way
To put the sole of (a golf club) on the ground, as in preparing to make a stroke.
Pisces the Fishes
the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
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
archerfish
Any of a family (Toxotidae) of freshwater percoid fishes of Australasia
Any of a family (Sphyraenidae) of fierce, pikelike percoid fishes of tropical seas: some species are edible
bluegill
An edible sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) of North American lakes and streams, having a dark spot on the dorsal fin.
A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States.
An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
bullhead
Any of several stocky North American freshwater catfishes of the genus Ameiurus, having a tail that is not forked.
Any of numerous scaleless, chiefly freshwater fishes of the order Siluriformes, characteristically having whiskerlike barbels extending from the upper jaw.
chub
By extension, various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
Any of various trouts (esp. genus Coregonus) found in the colder lakes of the NE U.S. and of Canada
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
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.
crappie
Either of two edible North American sunfishes, the black crappie or the white crappie.
Any of a family (Zoarcidae, order Gadiformes) of marine bony fishes that resemble eels
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
grouper
Any of several large sea basses (esp. genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca) found in warm seas
hake
One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
herring
A surname.
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
muskellunge
A large freshwater gamefish of the pike family, native to the lakes and rivers of eastern and middle western North America; Esox masquinongy.
pickerel
Any of various small, North American pike fishes (genus Esox)
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
pompano
Peprilus simillimus, the Pacific pompano.
porbeagle
A large, fierce mackerel shark (Lamna nasus) of the N Atlantic, that brings forth living young
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
redfin
Any of various fishes having reddish fins, as a pickerel (Esox americanus) of E North America
Any of various fishes with a reddish coloration, as the red drum
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.
turbot
Any of various other flatfishes of family Scophthalmidae that are found in marine or brackish waters.
veiltail
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.
Any of various marine food fishes having delicate white flesh, especially several hakes of the genus Merluccius and several kingfishes of the genus Menticirrhus.
fingerling
Anything very small or trifling
Any of various fishes, especially an ocean sunfish or a pufferfish, having or capable of assuming a globular shape.
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