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angelfish
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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]
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blowfish
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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]
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bluefish
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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
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bonefish
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n 1: slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and
mangrove lagoons [syn: bonefish, Albula vulpes]
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butterfish
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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]
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codfish
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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]
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crayfish
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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]
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cuttlefish
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n 1: ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long
as the body and a large calcareous internal shell [syn:
cuttlefish, cuttle]
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damselfish
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n 1: small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral
reefs [syn: damselfish, demoiselle]
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devilfish
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n 1: medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
[syn: grey whale, gray whale, devilfish,
Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus]
2: bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight
long tentacles [syn: octopus, devilfish]
3: extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton
and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it
dangerous if harpooned [syn: manta, manta ray,
devilfish]
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dogfish
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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
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elfish
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adj 1: usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a
practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks" [syn:
elfin, elfish, elvish]
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filefish
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n 1: narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a
long file-like dorsal spine
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flatfish
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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
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frogfish
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n 1: fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout
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garfish
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n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard
scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn:
gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus
osseus]
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goldfish
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n 1: small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia
used as pond or aquarium fishes [syn: goldfish,
Carassius auratus]
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hagfish
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n 1: eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a
round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or
trapped fishes by boring into their bodies [syn: hagfish,
hag, slime eels]
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huffish
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adj 1: sullen or moody [syn: huffish, sulky]
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jewfish
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n 1: large important food fish of Australia; almost
indistinguishable from the maigre [syn: mulloway,
jewfish, Sciaena antarctica]
2: large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales [syn:
jewfish, Mycteroperca bonaci]
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kingfish
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n 1: the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the
Atlantic coast of the United States
2: large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal
Atlantic waters [syn: cero, pintado, kingfish,
Scomberomorus regalis]
3: small silvery marine food fish found off California [syn:
white croaker, chenfish, kingfish, Genyonemus
lineatus]
4: any of several food and game fishes of the drum family
indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American
coast
5: large game fish of Australia and New Zealand [syn:
kingfish, Seriola grandis]
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lungfish
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n 1: air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy
paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud
coverings in which to survive drought
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monkfish
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n 1: flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters
of North America
2: fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached
for luring prey [syn: goosefish, angler, anglerfish,
angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius
Americanus]
3: sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but
that swim the way sharks do [syn: angel shark, angelfish,
Squatina squatina, monkfish]
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moonfish
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n 1: any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
[syn: moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish,
horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish, Selene
setapinnis]
2: large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic
and Pacific and Mediterranean [syn: opah, moonfish,
Lampris regius]
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oafish
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adj 1: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or
appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish
manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband";
"aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn:
boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal,
oafish, swinish]
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oarfish
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n 1: thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a
red dorsal fin [syn: oarfish, king of the herring,
ribbonfish, Regalecus glesne]
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offish
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adj 1: lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner"
[syn: offish, standoffish]
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parrotfish
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n 1: gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by
fusion of teeth [syn: parrotfish, polly fish,
pollyfish]
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pipefish
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n 1: fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with
bony plates [syn: pipefish, needlefish]
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raffish
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adj 1: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper
young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing,
jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy,
snappy, spruce]
2: marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness;
"a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary
Moore [syn: devil-may-care, raffish, rakish]
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ribbonfish
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n 1: thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a
red dorsal fin [syn: oarfish, king of the herring,
ribbonfish, Regalecus glesne]
2: marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body
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rockfish
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n 1: the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish
caught among rocks
2: marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts
of Europe and America
3: marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes;
migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus
Morone [syn: striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis,
rockfish]
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roughish
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adj 1: somewhat rough
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sailfish
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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
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sawfish
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n 1: primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long
flattened snout
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selfish
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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]
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shellfish
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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]
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silverfish
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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
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spearfish
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n 1: any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling
sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced;
worldwide but rare
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standoffish
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adj 1: lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner"
[syn: offish, standoffish]
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starfish
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n 1: echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a
central disk [syn: starfish, sea star]
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stockfish
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n 1: fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt
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stonefish
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n 1: venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock
[syn: stonefish, Synanceja verrucosa]
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swordfish
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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]
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toadfish
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n 1: bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a
broad thick head with a wide mouth [syn: toadfish,
Opsanus tau]
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triggerfish
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n 1: any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with
sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
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unselfish
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adj 1: disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those
of others [ant: selfish]
2: not greedy
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whitefish
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n 1: any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except
herring
2: flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold
lakes of the northern hemisphere
3: silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of
the northern hemisphere
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wolfish
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adj 1: resembling or characteristic (or considered
characteristic) of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs";
"wolfish rapacity" [syn: wolflike, wolfish]
2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
"voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious,
ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]
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dwarfish
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adj 1: atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star"
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crawfish
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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]
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globefish
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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]
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lumpfish
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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]
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redfish
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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
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threadfish
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n 1: fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal
fins [syn: threadfish, thread-fish, Alectis ciliaris]
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mudfish
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overfish
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