Fishes
/ˈfɪʃɪz/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:12 ptsWWF:11 pts6 letters
Definition of Fishes
noun
- A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
"Salmon is a fish."
- Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
- The flesh of the fish used as food.
"The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta."
- 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.
- A woman.
noun
verb
- To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.
"She went to the river to fish for trout."
- To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
"They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body."
- To use as bait when fishing.
- To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
"He was fishing for the keys in his pocket."
- (followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
"The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments."
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