fishes

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fĭʹshĭz, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃɪz/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃɪz

Noun

fishes

1. 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

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fish

   He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.