All related terms of 'Fishes'

A fish is a creature that lives in water and has a tail and fins. There are many different kinds of fish.

fish

a bony fish with a growth on its head which can be wiggled to attract prey

any small fish used as bait for larger fish

any tropical plectognath fish of the family Ostraciidae , having the body encased in bony plates with openings for the fins , eyes , mouth , etc

any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus : family Catostomidae ( suckers )

any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings

any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America

any of a family (Trichiuridae) of very long, thin percoid fishes with a wide mouth and sharp , pointed teeth , found near the surface in tropical seas

any of various fishes that have a rounded compressed silvery body, esp the moonfishes or the American butterfish

any marine fish of the family Bathydraconidae, of Antarctic seas, having an elongated body and flattened head and being biochemically adapted to extremely low temperatures

fish with fins , as opposed to shellfish

a dogfish

any deep-sea fishes of the genera Argyropelicus, Sternoptyx , and related genera, of tropical and temperate waters , having a silvery , hatchet-shaped body

the pike fish, esp when small

any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Opisthognathidae, common along sandy bottoms of warm seas

any of a family (Myctophidae) of deep-sea bony fishes (order Myctophiformes) with a large mouth , large eyes, and luminescent organs along each side of the body

any of various scorpion fishes of the tropical Pacific genus Pterois, having a striped body and elongated spiny fins

any of a family (Synodontidae) of small, brightly colored , marine bony fishes (order Myctophiformes) with a slender body, lizardlike head, and large mouth

a small gambusia fish ( Gambusia affinis ) sometimes introduced into a body of water to control mosquito larvae

any of a family (Diodontidae, order Tetraodontiformes) of tropical , marine bony fishes that can erect the long spines on their body by inflating themselves with air or water

a marine fish, Seriphus politus , found off the coast of California

a mollusc with a long, narrow shell

a dark-skinned fish of the family Anoplopomatiae , esp Anoplopoma fimbria , found off the western coast of North America

salted cod

a burrowing Pacific fish, Trichodon trichodon

a fish in the family Scaridae

any of various small, marine scorpaenids (esp. genus Scorpaena ) with poisonous spines in the dorsal , anal , and pelvic fins

any small spiny-finned fish of the family Liparidae, esp Liparis liparis, of cold seas, having a soft scaleless tadpole-shaped body with the pelvic fins fused into a sucker

a term for any fish resembling a snake

any tropical marine brightly coloured teleost fish of the family Holocentridae

a type of American minnow or small fish

any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout , as the slender , brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus , inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position

a predatory deep-sea fish of the family Chauliodontiae , with long, sharp , needle-shaped teeth

a large sea perch , Polyprion americanus, of the Atlantic and Mediterranean

the constellation Pisces , the twelfth sign of the zodiac

If you describe someone as a big fish , you believe that they are powerful or important in some way .

If you fish something out from somewhere , you take or pull it out, often after searching for it for some time.

to fish using artificial flies as lures

any percoid fish of the family Chaenichthyidae, of Antarctic seas, having a semitransparent scaleless body

a strange or eccentric person

an edible sea fish, Centroberyx affinis, of Australia , which is red in colour and has large prominent eyes

a fish that lives in salt water

a cylindrical self-propelled weapon carrying explosives that is launched from aircraft, ships, or submarines and follows an underwater path to hit its target

fresh fish as opposed to frozen or cooked fish

any fish of the class Osteichthyes , including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage

If you say that someone is a cold fish , you think that they are unfriendly and unemotional.

any fish used primarily as a commercial source of food

any fish providing sport for the angler

fish caught by lines rather than nets