Nouns Containing FISH

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fish
1. any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
2. the flesh of fish used as food
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fishing
1. the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
2. the occupation of catching fish for a living
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fisher
1. someone whose occupation is catching fish
2. large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
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fishery
1. a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold
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fisherman
1. someone whose occupation is catching fish
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fishes
1. any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
2. the flesh of fish used as food
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shellfish
1. meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
2. invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
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catfish
1. flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
2. large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
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fishnet
1. a net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in
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goldfish
1. small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes
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kingfisher
1. nonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fish
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starfish
1. echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
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jellyfish
1. large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
2. any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
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whitefish
1. any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring
2. flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
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selfishness
1. stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
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swordfish
1. flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
2. large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night
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blowfish
1. delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
2. any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers
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crawfish
1. tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
2. small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
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crayfish
1. warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
2. tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
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sportfishing
1. the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
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rockfish
1. the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
2. marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
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bluefish
1. bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters
2. fatty bluish flesh of bluefish
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groundfish
1. fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder)
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sunfish
1. the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
2. among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters
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fishbowl
1. a state of affairs in which you have no privacy
2. a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept
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redfish
1. North Atlantic rockfish
2. large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico
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spearfish
1. any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
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sailfish
1. a saltwater fish with lean flesh
2. large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail
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fishpond
1. a freshwater pond with fish
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fishbone
1. a bone of a fish
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dogfish
1. primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America
2. any of several small sharks
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sawfish
1. primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout
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kingfish
1. the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
2. large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
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bonefish
1. slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons
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silverfish
1. silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing
2. a silvery variety of Carassius auratus
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cuttlefish
1. ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
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angelfish
1. a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus
2. deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
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billfish
1. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
2. giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw
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monkfish
1. flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America
2. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
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