Words that rhyme with grayfish

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]

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]

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

n 1: slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons [syn: bonefish, Albula vulpes]

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]

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]

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]

n 1: ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell [syn: cuttlefish, cuttle]

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

adj 1: usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks" [syn: elfin, elfish, elvish]

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

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]

n 1: small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes [syn: goldfish, Carassius auratus]

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]

adj 1: lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner" [syn: offish, standoffish]

n 1: fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates [syn: pipefish, needlefish]

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]

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

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]

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]

n 1: any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare

n 1: echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk [syn: starfish, sea star]

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]

n 1: bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth [syn: toadfish, Opsanus tau]

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

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]

adj 1: atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star"

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]

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]