Addison's disease
() A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal. |
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. |
Basedow's disease
() A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart |
Bellows fish
() A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows |
Bright's disease
() An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process. |
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 |
Clown
(n.) A man of coarse nature and manners |
Clown
(n.) One who works upon the soil |
Clown
(n.) The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc. |
Clown
(v. i.) To act as a clown |
Coral fish
() Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. |
-fish
(pl. ) of Crayfish |
Disease
(n.) Lack of ease |
Disease
(n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness |
Disease
(v. t.) To deprive of ease |
Disease
(v. t.) To derange the vital functions of |
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. |
Graves' disease
() Same as Basedow's disease. |
Half-fish
(n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth. |
Hodgkin's disease
() A morbid condition characterized by progressive anaemia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands |
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 |
Meniere's disease
() A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoordination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Meniere, a French physician. |
Pott's disease
() Caries of the vertebrae, frequently resulting in curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities |
Suleah fish
() A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah. |
Thomsen's disease
() An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction. |
| Go Fish | a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards |
| surveillance of disease | the ongoing systematic collection and analysis of data about an infectious disease that can lead to action being taken to control or prevent the disease |
ichthyolatry
fish-worship | the worship of fish |
Borrelia burgdorferi
Lime disease spirochete | cause of Lyme disease, transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes |
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 |
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 |
clupeid fish
clupeid | any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas |
lizardfish
snakefish
snake-fish | tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads, found worldwide |
lancetfish
lancet fish
wolffish | large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail |
| handsaw fish | a soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus |
goosefish
angler
anglerfish
angler fish
monkfish
lotte
allmouth
Lophius Americanus | fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey |
oyster fish
oyster-fish
oysterfish | a variety of toadfish |
| sargassum fish | small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum |
| flying fish | tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight |
monoplane flying fish
two-wing flying fish | having only pectoral fins enlarged |
biplane flying fish
four-wing flying fish | having both pectoral and pelvic fins enlarged |