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 |
Cinque-spotted (a.) Five-spotted. |
Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. |
-fish (pl. ) of Crayfish |
Eye-spotted (a.) Marked with spots like eyes. |
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. |
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 |
Mandarin (n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman |
Mandarin (n.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange |
Margate fish () A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish |
Spotted (imp. & p. p.) of Spot |
Spotted (a.) Marked with spots |
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 |
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 |
spotted eagle ray spotted ray Aetobatus narinari | ray with back covered with white or yellow spots, widely distributed in warm seas |
spotted antbird Hylophylax naevioides | a kind of antbird |
spotted flycatcher Muscicapa striata Muscicapa grisola | common European woodland flycatcher with greyish-brown plumage |
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 |
spotted owl Strix occidentalis | a large owl of North America found in forests from British Columbia to central Mexico, has dark brown plumage and a heavily spotted chest |
spotted salamander fire salamander Salamandra maculosa | European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spots |
spotted salamander Ambystoma maculatum | glossy black North American salamander with yellow spots |
Chihuahuan spotted whiptail Cnemidophorus exsanguis | having longitudinal stripes overlaid with light spots, upland lizard of United States southwest and Mexico |
mandarin duck Aix galericulata | showy crested Asiatic duck, often domesticated |
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 |
spotted crake Porzana porzana | Eurasian rail of swamps and marshes |
spotted sandpiper Actitis macularia | common North American sandpiper |
liver-spotted dalmatian | a brown-spotted dalmatian |
spotted hyena laughing hyena Crocuta crocuta | African hyena noted for its distinctive howl |
spotted lynx Lynx pardina | of southern Europe |
jackass bat spotted bat Euderma maculata | a large bat of the southwestern United States having spots and enormous ears |
two-spotted ladybug Adalia bipunctata | red ladybug with a black spot on each wing |
fish fly fish-fly | similar to but smaller than the dobsonfly, larvae are used as fishing bait |
red-spotted purple Limenitis astyanax | similar to the banded purple but with red spots on underwing surfaces |
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 |
spotted skunk little spotted skunk Spilogale putorius | small skunk with a marbled black and white coat, of United States and Mexico |
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 |