fishes
English
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- plural of fish
- (universal) multiple kinds of fish
- Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.
- 2007, “Weird Fishes”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead:
- I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes
- (usually nonstandard or archaic) multiple individual fish
- I caught six fishes today!
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- "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."
- (universal) multiple kinds of fish
Verb
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- third-person singular simple present indicative of fish
- He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.
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