Word

fish, n.
(fishes)
freq. cnt. 15

any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
<noun.animal> freq. cnt.: 12 freq. cnt.: 12

fish

sample sentences

"the shark is a large fish"
"in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

fishy fish fish

semantic pointers

hyponym

bottom-feeder, bottom-dweller bottom lurkers cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian fingerling game fish, sport fish food fish rough fish young fish mouthbreeder spawner northern snakehead bony fish climbing perch, Anabas testudineus, A. testudineus

hypernym

aquatic vertebrate

part meronym

fish scale roe milt lateral line, lateral line organ fin tail fin, caudal fin fishbone

member holonym

Pisces school, shoal

the flesh of fish used as food
<noun.food> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3

fish

sample sentences

"in Japan most fish is eaten raw"
"after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"
"they have a chef who specializes in fish"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

fish

semantic pointers

hypernym

food, solid food

hyponym

panfish stockfish anchovy eel mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet alewife schrod, scrod haddock hake trout rock salmon salmon shad smelt