EGAVE

fish

About 48.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
    Salmon is a fish.
  2. noun Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
  3. noun Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water. Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
  4. noun Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
  5. noun Cod; codfish.
  6. noun The flesh of the fish used as food.
    The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
  7. noun An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
  8. noun A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.

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Word family

Fish Fishes Hamilton Fish bigger fish to fry fishabilities fishability fishable fished fishes fishes out of water

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