1syllable
fish
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Definitions offish
1noun
- A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Example: "Salmon is a fish."
- Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
- The flesh of the fish used as food.
Example: "The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta."
- A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A woman.
- An easy victim for swindling.
- A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- A torpedo.
- A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
- The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
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