fishes

Etymology

noun

  1. plural of fish
    1. (universal) multiple kinds of fish
      Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.
      I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes 2007, “Weird Fishes”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead
    2. (usually nonstandard or archaic) multiple individual fish
      I caught six fishes today!

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fish
    He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.

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