ADJ.
alive, many, orange, over, picked, similar, tiny, tropical
VERB + FISHES
am, became, buying, caught, flying, like, rain, raising
FISHES + NOUN
carp, gods, mountain, river
PREP.
from, in, off, with
ADV.
immediately, sometimes, such, usually
noun
plural of fish
Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.
I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes
plural of fish
I caught six fishes today!
The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Matthew 14:17: “And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.”
name
The constellation and zodiacal sign Pisces.
An Arabic constellation placed instead of the Piscis Australis, because the swallow arrives in Arabia about the time of the heliacal rising of the Fishes.
Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names.
To be dead, with one's corpse disposed of in a body of water.
The porter […] opened his sack, and pitched the corpse into the river, and ran back to receive the rest of his pay “ It is done,” said he, laughing ; “ Your man sleeps with the fis
Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.
WiktionaryI get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes
WiktionaryI caught six fishes today!
WiktionaryAn Arabic constellation placed instead of the Piscis Australis, because the swallow arrives in Arabia about the time of the heliacal rising of the Fishes.
WiktionaryStrange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, th
WiktionaryFor they are so easy to recall if you do it in associated pairs—like the Maid and the Twins, the Bull and the Rain, the Fishes and the Scales.
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