fishes

Noun

• any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
• the flesh of fish used as food
• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
• the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
• plural of fish
• multiple kinds of fish
• plural of fish
• multiple individual fish

Verb

• seek indirectly
• catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
• third-person singular simple present indicative of fish

Examples

• Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.
• He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.
• I caught six fishes today!

Synonyms

angle, Fish, fish, Pisces, Pisces the Fishes