fish

1. Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills (synset 102514684)
   "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"
   is a type of: aquatic vertebrate - animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water
   subtypes:

   • bottom-dweller, bottom-feeder - a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water
   • bottom lurkers - a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water
   • cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian - fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified
   • fingerling - a young or small fish
   • game fish, sport fish - any fish providing sport for the angler
   • food fish - any fish used for food by human beings
   • rough fish - any fish useless for food or sport or even as bait
   • young fish - a fish that is young
   • mouthbreeder - any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths
   • spawner - a female fish at spawning time
   • northern snakehead - a voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern China; can use fin to walk and can survive out of water for three days; a threat to American populations of fish
   • bony fish - any fish of the class Osteichthyes
   • a. testudineus, anabas testudineus, climbing perch - a small perch of India whose gills are modified to allow it to breathe air; has spiny pectoral fins that enable it to travel on land
   belongs to:

   • pisces - a group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates; not used technically
   • school, shoal - a large group of fish
   has:

   • fish scale - scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish
   • roe - eggs of female fish
   • milt - seminal fluid produced by male fish
   • lateral line, lateral line organ - sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water
   • fin - organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
   • caudal fin, tail fin - the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates
   • fishbone - a bone of a fish
2. The flesh of fish used as food (synset 107791351)
   "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish"
   is a type of: food, solid food - any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
   subtypes:

   • panfish - any of numerous small food fishes; especially those caught with hook and line and not available on the market
   • stockfish - fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt
   • anchovy - tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces
   • eel - the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
   • gray mullet, grey mullet, mullet - highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet
   • alewife - flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
   • schrod, scrod - flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also young haddock and pollock; often broiled
   • haddock - lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried
   • hake - the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod
   • trout - flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
   • rock salmon - any of several coarse fishes (such as dogfish or wolffish) when used as food
   • salmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
   • shad - bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast
   • smelt - small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
3. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces (synset 109773123)
   referred to in: astrology, star divination - a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon
   is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
   same as: pisces
4. The twelfth sign of the zodiac;
   The sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20 (synset 108705814)
   is an instance of: house, mansion, planetary house, sign, sign of the zodiac, star sign - (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
   same as: pisces, pisces the fishes

1. Seek indirectly (synset 201322006)
   "fish for compliments"
   is a type of: look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
   same as: angle
2. Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish (synset 201143220)
   "I like to go fishing on weekends"
   is a type of: catch, grab, take hold of - take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
   subtypes:

   • crab - fish for crab
   • seine - fish with a seine; catch fish with a seine
   • scallop, scollop - fish for scallops
   • rail - fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
   • brail - haul fish aboard with brails
   • angle - fish with a hook
   • shrimp - fish for shrimp
   • net fish - fish with nets
   • shark - hunt shark
   • trawl - fish with trawlers
   • still-fish - fish with the line and bait resting still or stationary in the water
   • prawn - fish for prawns

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