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Fishable
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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| fish (fɪʃ) | |
| —n , pl fish, fishes | |
| 1. | a. any of a large group of cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates having jaws, gills, and usually fins and a skin covered in scales: includes the sharks and rays (class Chondrichthyes: cartilaginous fishes) and the teleosts, lungfish, etc (class Osteichthyes: bony fishes) |
| b. (in combination): fishpond Related: ichthyic, ichthyoid, piscine | |
| 2. | any of various similar but jawless vertebrates, such as the hagfish and lamprey |
| 3. | (not in technical use) any of various aquatic invertebrates, such as the cuttlefish, jellyfish, and crayfish |
| 4. | the flesh of fish used as food |
| 5. | informal a person of little emotion or intelligence: a poor fish |
| 6. | short for fishplate |
| 7. | an informal word for torpedo Also called: tin fish |
| 8. | a fine kettle of fish an awkward situation; mess |
| 9. | drink like a fish to drink (esp alcohol) to excess |
| 10. | have other fish to fry to have other activities to do, esp more important ones |
| 11. | like a fish out of water out of one's usual place |
| 12. | (Irish) make fish of one and flesh of another to discriminate unfairly between people |
| 13. | neither fish, flesh, nor fowl neither this nor that |
| —vb (foll by for) | |
| 14. | (intr) to attempt to catch fish, as with a line and hook or with nets, traps, etc |
| 15. | (tr) to fish in (a particular area of water) |
| 16. | to search (a body of water) for something or to search for something, esp in a body of water |
| 17. | to seek something indirectly: to fish for compliments |
| Related: ichthyic, ichthyoid, piscine | |
| [Old English fisc; related to Old Norse fiskr, Gothic fiscs, Russian piskar, Latin piscis] | |
| 'fishable | |
| —adj | |
| 'fishlike | |
| —adj | |
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