Definition of Fishes

1. Noun. (plural of fish) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of fish) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fishes

1. fish [v] - See also: fish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishes

fisherfolks
fisheries
fisherman
fisherman's bend
fisherman's knot
fisherman's knots
fisherman's lure
fishermen
fisherpeople
fisherperson
fisherpersons
fishers
fisherwoman
fisherwomen
fishery
fishes (current term)
fishes out of water
fisheye
fisheye lens
fisheyes
fishfinder
fishfinders
fishfinding
fishflies
fishfly
fishful
fishgig
fishgigs
fishhawk
fishhawks

Literary usage of Fishes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1899)
"Baird (SF) Questions relative to the food fishes of the United States. ... fishes observed on the coast of New Jersey and Long Island during the summer of ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"Jordan and Snyder continue their monographic reviews of the various groups of Japanese fishes with an account of the cardinal fishes, ..."

3. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"Especially numerous and varied are the fishes of Japan. About nine hundred species of fishes are known, from the four great main islands of Japan, ..."

4. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"There are about twelve thousand species of fishes known from the entire world. Of these Jordan and Evermann in their large four-volume work on the fishes of ..."

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