" fishes "

[Noun]  | "fish" | \ ˈfish \

1: an aquatic animal —usually used in combination

2: any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony fishes and usually the cartilaginous and jawless fishes and that have typically an elongated somewhat spindle-shaped body terminating in a broad caudal fin, limbs in the form of fins when present at all, and a 2-chambered heart by which blood is sent through thoracic gills to be oxygenated

3: the flesh of fish used as food

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English, from Old English fisc; akin to Old High German fisc fish, Latin piscis;

[Noun]  | "bony fish" 

1: any of a major taxon (class Osteichthyes or superclass Teleostomi) comprising fishes (such as sturgeons, eels, mackerels, and sunfish) with a bony rather than a cartilaginous skeleton —called also teleost

Origin: 1673 ;

[Noun]  | "butterfly fish" 

1: any of a family (Chaetodontidae) of small brilliantly colored bony fishes of tropical seas with a narrow deep body and scaled fins

2: a small brown freshwater bony fish (Pantodon buchholzi of the family Pantodontidae) of western Africa that has elongate winglike pectoral fins

Origin: 1931 ;

[Noun]  | "cartilaginous fish" 

1: any of a class (Chondrichthyes) of fishes (such as a shark, ray, or chimaera) having the skeleton wholly or largely composed of cartilage

Origin: 1769 ;

[Noun]  | "clown fish" 

1: any of various small tropical fishes (genera Amphiprion and Premnas) of the Indian and Pacific oceans that are related to the damselfishes, are bright orange usually with one or more vertical white stripes, and live symbiotically with sea anemones

Origin: 1957 ;

[Noun]  | "coarse fish" 

1: rough fish

2: a freshwater fish other than a salmonid

Origin: 1857 ;

[Noun]  | "cold fish" 

1: a cold aloof person

Origin: 1924 ;

[Noun]  | "fly-fish*ing" | \ ˈflī-ˌfi-shiŋ \

1: a method of fishing in which an artificial fly is cast by use of a fly rod, a reel, and a relatively heavy oiled or treated line

Origin: 1653 ;

[Verb]  | "fish" 

1: to attempt to catch fish

2: to seek something by roundabout means

3: to search for something underwater

Origin: before 12th century ;

 See: ;

[Verb]  | "fish out" 

1: to exhaust the supply of fish in by fishing

Origin: 1892 ;

[Verb]  | "fishes" 

[Verb]  | "fish" 

[Verb]  | "fishes (for)" 

[Noun]  | "fish" 

[Noun]  | "cold fishes" 

[Noun]  | "cold fish"