fish
noun
any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
fishlike
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a word derived from
fish.
Example Sentences
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The vaguely fishlike critter was once believed to be a conodont, a jawless, eel-like vertebrate.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
While studying art criticism, Mira meets Annie, whose fishlike character, though interested in the collective, is defined by the self-sufficiency of her orphanhood.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022
This week, the critics discuss Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, a Cold War thriller/monster movie starring Sally Hawkins as a woman who falls in love with a fishlike creature.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2018
Indigenous to the island of Ahch-To, the fishlike Caretakers look after Skywalker and the Jedi Temple — and they, too, came right out of Johnson’s imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2017
But there was something about the way it moved that wasn’t fishlike at all!
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
