fishes
nounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈfɪʃɪz//
plural of fish multiple kinds of fish
noun
- 1
plural of fish multiple kinds of fish
Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.
sleep with the fishes.
I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes
- 2
plural of fish multiple individual fish
I caught six fishes today!
Thẽ ſayde they vnto hĩ: we have here but .v. loves and two fyſſhes.
"The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."
verb
- 1
Also a form of fishthird-person singular simple present indicative of fish
He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.
fishes · plural of fish multiple kinds of fish
Fishes · The constellation and zodiacal sign Pisces.fishing · The act of catching fish.fishy · Of, from, or similar to fish.