Fishes

//ˈfɪʃɪz// name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of fish; multiple kinds of fish universal

    "Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes."

  2. 2
    plural of fish; multiple individual fish archaic, nonstandard, usually

    "I caught six fishes today!"

Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of fish form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

    "He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The constellation and zodiacal sign Pisces.

    "An Arabic constellation placed instead of the Piscis Australis, because the swallow arrives in Arabia about the time of the heliacal rising of the Fishes."

  2. 2
    plural of Fish form-of, plural

Synonyms

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piscesthe fish

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"Almost every day he goes to the river and fishes."

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