English words for 'Alternative form of cleaner fish.'
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noun
- Such fish prepared as food.
- Any of several small fish, mostly in families Atherinidae and Atherinopsidae, both in order Atheriniformes, that are characterized by bright, silvery scales.
- (British) The upper side of a round of beef.
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, informal) Corned beef made with this type of meat.
- small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States
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noun
- edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
- (by extension) Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.
- Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
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- Any of various fish with yellow fins.
- yellowfin surgeon (Acanthurus xanthopterus, in family Acanthuridae)
- yellowfin sole (Limanda aspera)
- especially, yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares, in family Scombridae)
- yellowfin madtom (Noturus flavipinnis, in family Ictaluridae)
- yellowfin pike (Dinolestes lewini, in family Dinolestidae)
- yellowfin bream, any of several species in family Sparidae
- yellow-fin perchlet (Ambassis elongatus, in family Ambassidae)
- yellowfin fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus flavidorsalis, in family Labridae)
- yellowfin croaker (Umbrina roncador, in family Sciaenidae)
- yellowfin cutthroat trout (†Oncorhynchus clarkii macdonaldi, in the family Salmonidae)
- yellowfin sea bream, any of several species in family Sparidae
- yellowfin whiting (Sillago schomburgkii, in family Sillaginidae)
- yellowfin grouper (Mycteroperca venenosa, in family Serranidae)
- may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics
verb
noun
- disparaging terms for small people
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
- (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
- (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface
- Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
- (slang, derogatory) A small penis.
noun
- a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept
- a state of affairs in which you have no privacy
- (by extension) Any place or event that lacks privacy or is intensely scrutinized.
- A small, rounded, transparent, and domestic aquarium.
- A variety of discussions where participants are organized in concentric circles and take turns where they and others in the same group are allowed to speak according to a set of rules.
- The central and smallest circle where the speakers are located in some versions of such a discussion.
noun
- bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish
- a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish
- a close friend who accompanies their buddies in their activities
- A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.
- (fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
- Synonym of chum salmon.
- (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
verb
noun
- (usually uncountable) The fish as food.
- (usually countable) A trout of the species Oncorhynchus mykiss, that has black spots and a pink streak running along the body.
- found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska
- flesh of Pacific trout that migrate from salt to fresh water
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verb
noun
- (spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
- A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
- (figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
- (British) A rivulet, small stream.
- (zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
- (animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
- (British) A ravine.
- (mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
- Alternative form of jill (“a female ferret”).
- A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
- (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
- a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
- respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
- any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus
- a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces
noun
- the flesh of fish used as food
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
verb
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
noun
- Edible flesh of this fish.
- A small salmon with red flesh, Oncorhynchus nerka, found in the coastal waters of the northern Pacific.
- fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
- small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
noun
- spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
- support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
- a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
- any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
- an elevated place serving as a seat
- a square rod of land
- (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
- (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
- (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- (US) Kyphosus azureus
verb
- sit, as on a branch
- cause to perch or sit
- to come to rest, settle
- (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
- (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
- (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
- (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
- (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
verb
noun
- shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
- (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
- (Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
- Alternative form of porn.
- A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
noun
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
- a pale pinkish orange color
- flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
- any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
adj
verb
noun
- Such fish prepared as food.
- Any of several small fish, mostly in families Atherinidae and Atherinopsidae, both in order Atheriniformes, that are characterized by bright, silvery scales.
- (British) The upper side of a round of beef.
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, informal) Corned beef made with this type of meat.
- small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States
noun
- edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
- (by extension) Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.
- Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
noun
noun
noun
- Any of various fish with yellow fins.
- yellowfin surgeon (Acanthurus xanthopterus, in family Acanthuridae)
- yellowfin sole (Limanda aspera)
- especially, yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares, in family Scombridae)
- yellowfin madtom (Noturus flavipinnis, in family Ictaluridae)
- yellowfin pike (Dinolestes lewini, in family Dinolestidae)
- yellowfin bream, any of several species in family Sparidae
- yellow-fin perchlet (Ambassis elongatus, in family Ambassidae)
- yellowfin fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus flavidorsalis, in family Labridae)
- yellowfin croaker (Umbrina roncador, in family Sciaenidae)
- yellowfin cutthroat trout (†Oncorhynchus clarkii macdonaldi, in the family Salmonidae)
- yellowfin sea bream, any of several species in family Sparidae
- yellowfin whiting (Sillago schomburgkii, in family Sillaginidae)
- yellowfin grouper (Mycteroperca venenosa, in family Serranidae)
- may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics
noun
- a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept
- a state of affairs in which you have no privacy
- (by extension) Any place or event that lacks privacy or is intensely scrutinized.
- A small, rounded, transparent, and domestic aquarium.
- A variety of discussions where participants are organized in concentric circles and take turns where they and others in the same group are allowed to speak according to a set of rules.
- The central and smallest circle where the speakers are located in some versions of such a discussion.
noun
- bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish
- a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish
- a close friend who accompanies their buddies in their activities
- A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.
- (fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
- Synonym of chum salmon.
- (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
verb
noun
- (usually uncountable) The fish as food.
- (usually countable) A trout of the species Oncorhynchus mykiss, that has black spots and a pink streak running along the body.
- found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska
- flesh of Pacific trout that migrate from salt to fresh water
noun
noun
- the flesh of fish used as food
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
verb
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
noun
- Edible flesh of this fish.
- A small salmon with red flesh, Oncorhynchus nerka, found in the coastal waters of the northern Pacific.
- fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
- small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
noun
- spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
- support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
- a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
- any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
- an elevated place serving as a seat
- a square rod of land
- (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
- (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
- (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- (US) Kyphosus azureus
verb
- sit, as on a branch
- cause to perch or sit
- to come to rest, settle
- (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
- (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
- (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
- (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
- (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
noun
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
- a pale pinkish orange color
- flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
- any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
adj
verb
verb
noun
- disparaging terms for small people
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
- (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
- (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface
- Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
- (slang, derogatory) A small penis.
verb
noun
- (spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
- A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
- (figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
- (British) A rivulet, small stream.
- (zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
- (animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
- (British) A ravine.
- (mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
- Alternative form of jill (“a female ferret”).
- A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
- (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
- a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
- respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
- any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus
- a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces
verb
noun
- shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
- (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
- (Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
- Alternative form of porn.
- A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
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