Words that rhyme with batfish

• angelfish 0
  n 1: a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus 2: deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters [syn: spadefish, angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber] 3: sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do [syn: angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina, monkfish]
• blowfish 0
  n 1: delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver [syn: blowfish, sea squab, puffer, pufferfish] 2: any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers [syn: puffer, pufferfish, blowfish, globefish]
• bluefish 0
  n 1: bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters [syn: bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix] 2: fatty bluish flesh of bluefish
• bonefish 0
  n 1: slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons [syn: bonefish, Albula vulpes]
• butterfish 0
  n 1: any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin 2: small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines [syn: butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid] 3: slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters [syn: rock gunnel, butterfish, Pholis gunnellus]
• catfish 0
  n 1: flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed [syn: catfish, mudcat] 2: large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins [syn: wolffish, wolf fish, catfish] 3: any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth [syn: catfish, siluriform fish]
• codfish 0
  n 1: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish] 2: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn: cod, codfish]
• crayfish 0
  n 1: warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish] 2: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse] 3: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy] 4: large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish]
• cuttlefish 0
  n 1: ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell [syn: cuttlefish, cuttle]
• dogfish 0
  n 1: primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America [syn: bowfin, grindle, dogfish, Amia calva] 2: any of several small sharks
• flatfish 0
  n 1: sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets 2: any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side
• sailfish 0
  n 1: a saltwater fish with lean flesh 2: large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail
• sawfish 0
  n 1: primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout
• selfish 0
  adj 1: concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman [ant: unselfish]
• shellfish 0
  n 1: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) 2: invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell [syn: mollusk, mollusc, shellfish]
• silverfish 0
  n 1: silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing [syn: silverfish, Lepisma saccharina] 2: a silvery variety of Carassius auratus
• spearfish 0
  n 1: any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
• standoffish 0
  adj 1: lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner" [syn: offish, standoffish]
• starfish 0
  n 1: echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk [syn: starfish, sea star]
• stockfish 0
  n 1: fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt
• stonefish 0
  n 1: venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock [syn: stonefish, Synanceja verrucosa]
• swordfish 0
  n 1: flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks 2: large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night [syn: swordfish, Xiphias gladius]
• toadfish 0
  n 1: bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth [syn: toadfish, Opsanus tau]
• dwarfish 0
  adj 1: atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star"
• crawfish 0
  n 1: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse] 2: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy] 3: large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish] v 1: make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" [syn: retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw]
• globefish 0
  n 1: any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers [syn: puffer, pufferfish, blowfish, globefish]
• lumpfish 0
  n 1: clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar [syn: lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus]
• redfish 0
  n 1: North Atlantic rockfish [syn: redfish, rosefish, ocean perch] 2: large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico [syn: red drum, channel bass, redfish, Sciaenops ocellatus] 3: male salmon that has recently spawned
• threadfish 0
  n 1: fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins [syn: threadfish, thread-fish, Alectis ciliaris]
• overfish 0

See also batfish definition