Air plant () A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
Amber fish () A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.) |
Angel fish () See under Angel. |
Archer fish () A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies |
Balloon fish () A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish. |
Band fish () A small red fish of the genus Cepola |
Barber fish () See Surgeon fish. |
Bellows fish () A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows |
Bur fish () A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur |
Burgess-ship (n.) The state of privilege of a burgess. |
Caught (imp. & p. p.) of Catch |
Caught () imp. & p. p. of Catch. |
Coll (v. t.) To embrace. |
Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. |
-fish (pl. ) of Crayfish |
Dove plant () A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove |
Fish (n.) A counter, used in various games. |
Fish (pl. ) of Fish |
Fish (n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water. |
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. |
Fish (n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac |
Fish (n.) The flesh of fish, used as food. |
Fish (n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor. |
Fish (n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard. |
Fish (v. i.) To attempt to catch fish |
Fish (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth |
Fish (v. t.) To catch |
Fish (v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping. |
Fish (v. t.) To try with a fishing rod |
Fish (v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n. |
Fish-bellied (a.) Bellying or swelling out on the under side |
Fish-block (n.) See Fish-tackle. |
Fish-tackle (n.) A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block. |
Fish-tail (a.) Like the of a fish |
Flax-plant (n.) A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth. |
Fly-fish (v. i.) To angle, using flies for bait. |
Flying fish () A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. |
Gauger-ship (n.) The office of a gauger. |
Half-fish (n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth. |
High-churchman-ship (n.) The state of being a high-churchman. |
Hostess-ship (n.) The character, personality, or office of a hostess. |
Ice plant () A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic |
Lance fish () A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast |
Leviathan (n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture. |
Leviathan (n.) The whale, or a great whale. |
Light-ship (n.) A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners. |
Lode-ship (n.) An old name for a pilot boat. |
Log-ship (n.) A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2. |
Margate fish () A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish |
Plant (n.) A vegetable |
plant flora plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
plant closing | act of shutting down operation of a plant |
belly flop belly flopper belly whop belly whopper | a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water |
Go Fish | a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards |
shipbuilding ship building | the construction of ships |
ichthyolatry fish-worship | the worship of fish |
plant virus | a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
soft-finned fish malacopterygian | any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
fish family | any of various families of fish |
fish genus | any of various genus of fish |
cypriniform fish | a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes |
cyprinid cyprinid fish | soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales |
buffalo fish buffalofish | any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley |
striped killifish mayfish may fish Fundulus majalis | black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States |
guppy rainbow fish Lebistes reticulatus | small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies, often kept in aquariums |
topminnow poeciliid fish poeciliid live-bearer | small usually brightlyolored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters, often used in mosquito control |
soldierfish soldier-fish | the larger squirrelfishes |
anomalops flashlight fish | fish having a luminous organ beneath eye, of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico |
flashlight fish Photoblepharon palpebratus | fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye |
snipefish bellows fish | small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth |
shrimpfish shrimp-fish | slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates |
jawless vertebrate jawless fish agnathan | eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms |
cartilaginous fish chondrichthian | fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified |
osprey fish hawk fish eagle sea eagle Pandion haliaetus | large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years |
merganser fish duck sawbill sheldrake | large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges |
fish scale | scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish |
fish louse | a kind of copepod |
leaf bug plant bug | small brightolored insect that feeds on plant juices |
four-lined plant bug four-lined leaf bug Poecilocapsus lineatus | yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back, widespread in central and eastern North America |
tarnished plant bug Lygus lineolaris | widespread plant and fruit pest |
plant louse louse | any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants |
woolly aphid woolly plant louse | secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads |
jumping plant louse psylla psyllid | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping, feeds on plant juices |
plant hopper planthopper | related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants |
fish fly fish-fly | similar to but smaller than the dobsonfly, larvae are used as fishing bait |
basket star basket fish | any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc |
fish | any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills, the shark is a large fish, in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish |
game fish sport fish | any fish providing sport for the angler |
food fish | any fish used for food by human beings |
rough fish | any fish useless for food or sport or even as bait |
groundfish bottom fish | fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) |
young fish | a fish that is young |
bony fish | any fish of the class Osteichthyes |
crossopterygian lobefin lobe-finned fish | any fish of the order Crossopterygii, most known only in fossil form |
catfish siluriform fish | any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth |
silurid silurid fish | Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin |
crucifix fish | sea catfish of the Caribbean area |
gadoid gadoid fish | a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae |
grenadier rattail rattail fish | deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail |
teleost fish teleost teleostan | a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei |