fish food
Americannoun
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food eaten by or prepared for fish, especially pet fish.
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a corpse in a body of water.
Example Sentences
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If anyone has heard of them, it's probably as a type of fish food available to buy online.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025
Inside the passenger cabin, a row of large portholes runs down each side, with small buttons next to them that allow passengers to shoot fish food “torpedoes” at the sea life.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2023
Then its researchers dropped in cotton balls soaked in various ingredients, ranging from mashed-up worms to compounds from known fish food, and watched what the fish went for.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2022
There’s even some of the lethal metal still in the ground, most of it the size of fish food but sharp enough to cut fingers.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2022
He reached, automatically, for the container of fish food beside the tank.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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