A new order of fishlike Amphibia from the Pennsylvanian of Kansas.
Snakelike amphibians, some fishlike, some lizard-like, and huge crocodilian forms appeared for the first time.
The fishlike flopping of Peter's heart slowed down as if the fish were losing strength.
Like the Ichthyostegids, it probably swam by means of a fishlike tail.
Their eyes were almost perfectly round, and very fierce, and their mouths huge and fishlike.
But now as Miss Elvira's eye, fishlike in its gloom, probed hers, Bab felt the color pour suddenly over her face and neck.
The body approaches a fishlike form, and the four limbs are turned into more or less perfect paddles, or "flippers."
A new order of fishlike Amphibia from the Pennsylvanianof Kansas.
These small, fishlike forms were cased in front with bony plates developed in the skin and covered in the rear with scales.
The eyes of the lynx followed, with savage intentness, his swift and fishlike dartings beneath the water.
Old English fisc, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German fisc, Old Norse fiskr, Middle Dutch visc, Dutch vis, German Fisch, Gothic fisks), from PIE *peisk- "fish" (cf. Latin piscis, Irish iasc, and, via Latin, Italian pesce, French poisson, Spanish pez, Welsh pysgodyn, Breton pesk).
Fish story attested from 1819, from the tendency to exaggerate the size of the catch (or the one that got away). Figurative sense of fish out of water first recorded 1610s.
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