Phrase Hound found 104 phrases and 296 compound words that contain fishes. The most common are listed below. Open fishes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 104
- Age of FishesThe Devonian era.
- sleep with the fishesTo be dead, with one's corpse disposed of in a body of water.
- sleeping with the fishespresent participle and gerund of sleep with the fishes
- flying fishesplural of flying fish: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flying, fish.
- reef fishesplural of reef fish: Any of numerous marine fishes that live in or are closely associated with coral reefs.
- labyrinth fishesplural of labyrinth fish: Any fish that has a labyrinth organ, a fish of the suborder Anabantoidei, an anabantoid.
- bony fishesplural of bony fish: A fish of the taxonomic superclass Osteichthyes.
- sleeps with the fishesthird-person singular simple present indicative of sleep with the fishes: To be dead, with one's corpse disposed of in a body of water.
- sabertooth fishesplural of sabertooth fish: Any deep sea-dwelling fish of the taxonomic family Evermannellidae, notable for their elongated teeth.
- cartilaginous fishesplural of cartilaginous fish: Any member of the taxonomic class Chondrichthyes, having a skeleton made of cartilage rather than bone. They can be contrasted with the Osteichthyes or bony fishes.
- slept with the fishessimple past and past participle of sleep with the fishes
- angel fishesplural of angel fish: Any of the genus Pterophyllum of freshwater, tropical cichlids.
- beta fishesplural of beta fish: Betta.
- buffalo fishesplural of buffalo fish: Any of several North American freshwater sucker fishes of the genus Ictiobus, similar to carp but having a humped back.
- butterfly fishesplural of butterfly fish: Any fish of the family Chaetodontidae.
- button fishesplural of button fish: A sea urchin.
- cleaner fishesplural of cleaner fish: Any of many fish (in many taxa) that provide a service to other fish species by removing dead skin and parasites.
- cold fishesplural of cold fish: A heartless individual; a person lacking empathy and emotion.
- cotton fishesplural of cotton fish: A milkfish.
- cur fishesplural of cur fish: The dogfish.
- Darwin fishesplural of Darwin fish: A symbol, portrayed as a fish with legs, used to indicate support for the scientific theory of evolution as being the cause of species diversification, rather than biblical creationism.
- dead fishesplural of dead fish: A sexual partner who lies flat and unresponsive during sex.
- dolphin fishesplural of dolphin fish: A large food and game fish of the Coryphaenidae family which is commonly found in tropical and subtropical waters.
- dull fishesplural of dull fish: A dull, uninteresting person.
- elephant fishesplural of elephant fish: A fish of the family Mormyridae, noted for its ability to generate electric fields.
Compound words 296
- catfishesplural of catfish: Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
- foodfishesplural of foodfish: Any fish used as human food.
- alligatorfishesplural of alligatorfish: a bottom-dwelling marine fish of species Aspidophoroides monopterygius, family Agonidae, which is found along the coasts of the northwestern Atlantic.
- amberfishesplural of amberfish: An amberjack.
- anemonefishesplural of anemonefish: Any of the clownfish, principally in the Amphiprion genus.
- angelfishesplural of angelfish: Any of the genus Pterophyllum of freshwater, tropical cichlids.
- anglerfishesplural of anglerfish: Any fish of the bony fish order Lophiiformes, which have an outgrowth they wiggle to lure and catch their prey.
- archerfishesplural of archerfish: Any of the species of fish in the family Toxotidae (usually with sole genus Toxotes), who prey on small animals near to the surface of a water by shooting them with water from their mouths.
- argusfishesplural of argusfish: A fish of species Scatophagus argus.
- assfishesplural of assfish: Any of several types of fish: