fishes

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English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: fĭʹshĭz, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃɪz/
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Rhymes: -ɪʃɪz

Noun

fishes

plural of fish
1. (universal) multiple kinds of fish
  Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.
  - 2007, “Weird Fishes”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead:
    I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes
2. (usually nonstandard or archaic) multiple individual fish
  I caught six fishes today!
  - 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
    "The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."

Verb

fishes

third-person singular simple present indicative of fish
He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.

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