goldfish

[ gohld-fish ]

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noun

, plural (especially collectively) gold·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) gold·fish·es.

a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
garibaldi ( def 2 ).

goldfish

/ ˈɡəʊldˌfɪʃ /

a freshwater cyprinid fish, Carassius auratus, of E Europe and Asia, esp China, widely introduced as a pond or aquarium fish. It resembles the carp and has a typically golden or orange-red coloration
any of certain similar ornamental fishes, esp the golden orfe See orfe

First recorded in 1690–1700; gold + fish

They include “The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell” painted in 1932 and “The Harbour, Cannes,” painted circa 1933.

And in item 6c I get to list my dependents—three children, four dogs, six laying hens, two goldfish, and a hamster.

She told Harry that she did not want to live in the goldfish bowl of Royal family life.

He found a manager who was buying a package of Goldfish crackers and pulled the pellet gun on him.

The Jets step up to help Elmo train and Elmo helps them score a win, or at least his pet goldfish Dorothy does.

There are clumps of ornamental wood, flower-beds, and artificial ponds with goldfish swimming in them.

My waif was curled up in my kimono, feeding my fan-tailed goldfish.

Already the boy could take a pair of rabbits out of a high hat, or change a bunch of carrots into a bowl of goldfish.

A good name, he seems to believe, is something which a woman carries tightly clasped in both arms like a bowl of goldfish.

He said that when he grew up he was going to be a merchant, and he had already begun to carry on a trade in canaries and goldfish.

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