Word Finder - fishes

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A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

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Salmon is a fish.

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Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

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The flesh of the fish used as food.

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The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.

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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.

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A woman.

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An easy victim for swindling.

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A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).

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A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.

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A purchase used to fish the anchor.

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A torpedo.

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A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:

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The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

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A period of time spent fishing.

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The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.

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An instance of seeking something.

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Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.

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To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.

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She went to the river to fish for trout.

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To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

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They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.

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To use as bait when fishing.

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To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

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He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.

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(followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.

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The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.

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Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.

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To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).

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To hoist the flukes of.

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A counter, used in various games.

He's got all the loaves and fishes he needs.

At one o'clock the next day Massasoit "brought two fishes that he had shot," about thrice as big as a bream.

Often the bones, teeth and scales of fishes are to FIG.

The constellation and sign of the zodiac known as "the fishes" is treated under Pisces.

Fishes are present in even greater variety than birds.

The Australian seas are inhabited by many fishes of the same genera as exist in the southern parts of Asia and Africa.

The most frequent are the miracle at Cana, the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, the paralytic carrying his bed, the healing of the woman with the issue of blood, the raising of Lazarus, FIG.

He read considerably, wrote abundantly, thought actively if not widely, and came to know beasts, birds and fishes with an intimacy more extraordinary than was the case with St Francis of Assisi.

I did not pity the fishes nor the worms.

The " mudfish " of Queensland (Ceratodus Forsteri) belongs to an ancient order of fishes - the Dipnoi, only a few species of which have survived from past geological periods.

He cuts and saws the solid pond, unroofs the house of fishes, and carts off their very element and air, held fast by chains and stakes like corded wood, through the favoring winter air, to wintry cellars, to underlie the summer there.

Bogdanov, Birds and Mammals of the Black-Earth Region of the Volga Basin (in Russian, Kazan, 1871); Karelin for the southern Urals; Kessler for fishes; Strauch, Die Schlangen des Russ.

The joint was thus suspended between the two chairs, and two keys of iron, called " fishes," fitting the side channels of the rails, were driven in on each side between the chairs and the rails.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

God, here I am running around the country and he's out there swimming with the fishes.

The Squamipennes, or scaly-finned fishes, are principally found in the seas of southern Asia, and especially near coral reefs.

The Stromateidae, or pomfrets, resemble the dory, a Mediterranean form, and extend to China and the Pacific. The sword fishes, Xiphiidae, the lancet fishes, Acanthuridae, and the scabbard fishes, Trichuridae, are distributed through the seas of south Asia.

Of the cartilaginous fishes, Chondropterygii, the true sharks and hammer-headed sharks, are numerous.

The walking or climbing fishes, which are peculiar to south-eastern Asia and Africa, are organized so as to be able to breathe when out of the water, and they are thus fitted to exist under conditions which would be fatal to other fishes, being suited to live in the regions of periodical drought and rain in which they are found.

To this category will belong the oviducts in Teleostean fishes and probably the gonad ducts in several groups of invertebrates.

Its food appears to be cuttlefishes, small fishes and crustaceans.

Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook.

How surprised must the fishes be to see this ungainly visitor from another sphere speeding his way amid their schools!

It is glorious to behold this ribbon of water sparkling in the sun, the bare face of the pond full of glee and youth, as if it spoke the joy of the fishes within it, and of the sands on its shore.

Beside this I got a rare mess of golden and silver and bright cupreous fishes, which looked like a string of jewels.

It was about loaves and fishes.

Dacnitis and Ichthyonema are only found in fishes.

The discovery of their true nature was made by Dr William Buckland, who observed that certain convoluted bodies occurring in the Lias of Gloucestershire had the form which would have been produced by their passage in the soft state through the intestines of reptiles or fishes.

It is possible, however, that those oviducts belong to a separate morphological category, more comparable to the dorsal pores and to abdominal pores in some fishes.

Therefore the flesh, especially of the larger kinds, is of a red colour; and the energy of their muscular action causes the temperature of their blood to be several degrees higher than in other fishes.

Lime is, in fact, absorbed to an enormous extent by fishes, molluscs, crustacea, calcareous algae and sponges, starfishes, sea-urchins and feather stars, many polyzoa and a multitude of protozoa (mainly the foraminifera).

The protamines are a wellcharacterized class of albumins found in the ripe spermatozoa of fishes.

There were said to be " various kinds of magnets, some of which attract gold, others silver, brass, lead; even some which attract flesh, water, fishes; " and stories were told about " mountains in the north of such great powers of attraction that ships are built with wooden pegs, lest.

Zoologists are familiar with many instances (fishes, crustaceans) in which the protective walls of a water-breathing organ or gill-apparatus become converted into an air-breathing organ or lung, but there is no other case known of the conversion of gill processes themselves into air-breathing plates.

Its usual haunts are the shallow margins of the larger lakes and rivers, where fishes are plentiful, since it requires for its sustenance a vast supply of them.

By the introduction of a method of classification which was due to the superficial Pliny - depending, not on structure, but on the medium inhabited by an animal, whether earth, air or waterWotton is led to associate Fishes and Whales as aquatic animals.

Having no spines to their fins, the Gadids used, in Cuvierian days, to be associated with the herrings, Salmonids, pike, &c., in the artificially-conceived order of Malacopterygians, or soft-finned bony fishes.

But, on the ground of their air-bladder being closed, or deprived of a pneumatic duct communicating with the digestive canal, such as is characteristic of the Malacopterygians, they were removed from them and placed with the flat-fishes, or Pleuronectidae, in a suborder Anacanthini, regarded as intermediate in position between the Acanthopterygians, or spiny-finned fishes, and the Malacopterygians.

This type of caudal fin must be regarded as secondary, the Gadidae being, no doubt, derived from fishes in which the homocercal fin of the typical Teleostean had been lost.

The loss of an eye will be followed by atrophy of the optic nerve; the tissues in a stump of an amputated limb show atrophic changes; a paralysed limb from long disuse shows much wasting; and one finds at great depths of the sea fishes and marine animals, which have almost completely lost the organs of sight, having been cut off for long ages from the stimuli (light) essential for these organs, and so brought into an atrophic condition from disuse.

Fleet Street was the show-place of London, in which were exhibited a constant succession of puppets, naked Indians and strange fishes.

The eggs are free in freshwater lakes and rivers, where they enter the bodies of pike, turbot and other fishes, and are thus eaten by man.

Wild animals and tame, carnivorous and graminivorous, insects, birds, fishes and man are adapted to each other."

Nine orders 01 fishes have been distinguished as the piscifauna of Japanese waiters.

Flocks of lupa and other species swim in the wake of the tropical fishes which move towards Japan at certain seasons.

A special feature of their art is that, while often closely and minutely imitating natural objects, such as birds, flowers and fishes, the especial objects of their predilection and study, they frequently combine the facts of external nature with a conventional mode of treatment better suited to their purpose.

Indeed, of this porcelain it may be said that, from the monster pieces of blue-and-white manufactured at Setovases six feet high and garden pillar-lamps half as tall again do not dismay the BishU ceramistto tiny coffee-cups decorated in Tokyo, with theil delicate miniatures of birds, flowers, insects, fishes and so forth, everything indicates the death of the old severe aestheticism.

He takes for subject a landscape, a seascape, a battle-scene, flowers, foliage, birds, fishes, insectsin short, anything.

The son of Rangi and Papa was Tangaloa (also called Tangaroa and Taaroa), the sea-god and the father of fishes and reptiles.'

They are unable to move on land, feed on fishes, are viviparous and poisonous.