African
(a.) Of or pertaining to Africa. |
African
(n.) A native of Africa |
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 |
Bald eagle
() The white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head. |
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 |
Bold eagle
() an Australian eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo. |
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 |
Coral fish
() Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. |
-fish
(pl. ) of Crayfish |
Eagle
(n.) Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus) |
Eagle
(n.) A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars. |
Eagle
(n.) A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila. |
Eagle
(n.) The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people. |
Eagle-eyed
(a.) Sharp-sighted as an eagle. |
Eagle-sighted
(a.) Farsighted and strong-sighted |
Eagle-winged
(a.) Having the wings of an eagle |
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 |
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. |
Gier-eagle
(n.) A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus). |
Half-fish
(n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth. |
Lance fish
() A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast |
Margate fish
() A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish |
Sea eagle
() Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliaeetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle. (H. pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail |
Sea eagle
() The eagle ray. See under Ray. |
Spread-eagle
(a.) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style |
Suleah fish
() A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah. |
Tobias fish
() The lant, or sand eel. |
| Go Fish | a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards |
| spread eagle | a skating figure executed with the skates heel to heel in a straight line |
ichthyolatry
fish-worship | the worship of fish |
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 |
| eagle ray | powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins, usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays |
spotted eagle ray
spotted ray
Aetobatus narinari | ray with back covered with white or yellow spots, widely distributed in warm seas |
harrier eagle
short-toed eagle | any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles |
eagle
bird of Jove | any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight |
harpy harpy eagle
Harpia harpyja | large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America |
golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos | large eagle of mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere having a golden-brown head and neck |
tawny eagle
Aquila rapax | brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia |
bald eagle
American eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus | a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body |
| sea eagle | any of various large eagles that usually feed on fish |
Kamchatkan sea eagle
Stellar's sea eagle
Haliaeetus pelagicus | found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific |
ern
erne
grey sea eagle
gray sea eagle
European sea eagle
white-tailed sea eagle
Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
fishing eagle
Haliaeetus leucorhyphus | of southeast Europe and central Asia |
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 |
African clawed frog
Xenopus laevis | a tongueless frog native to Africa, established in the United States as result of release of laboratory and aquarium animals |
African chameleon
Chamaeleo chamaeleon | a chameleon found in Africa |
African monitor
Varanus niloticus | destroys crocodile eggs |
African crocodile
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus | a dangerous crocodile widely distributed in Africa |
African coral snake
Aspidelaps lubricus | small widely distributed arboreal snake of southern Africa banded in black and orange |
African grey
African gray
Psittacus erithacus | commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail and white face, native to equatorial Africa |
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 |
African hunting dog
hyena dog
Cape hunting dog
Lycaon pictus | a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs, now rare in settled area |
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 |
African wild ass
Equus asinus | a wild ass of Africa |
green monkey
African green monkey
Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus | common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail |
African elephant
Loxodonta africana | an elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks |
| 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 |