fish

noun
fĭsh

A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.

Example

“Salmon is a fish.”

Other meanings

Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).

A kind of

aquatic vertebrate

Kinds of fish

bottom-feeder
cartilaginous fish
game fish
food fish
rough fish
young fish
bony fish
climbing perch

Example sentences

“I hope those fish aren't going to be eaten.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“Are humans lobe-finned fish?”
Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0
“The crystal-clear water made it easy to see the fish.”
Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

Word history

From Old English "fisċ".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “fish” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.