fish




any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills

"the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"

Type of:
  • aquatic vertebrate

Types:
  • bottom-feeder; bottom-dweller
  • bottom lurkers
  • cartilaginous fish; chondrichthian
  • fingerling
  • game fish; sport fish
  • food fish
  • rough fish
  • young fish
  • mouthbreeder
  • spawner
  • northern snakehead
  • bony fish
  • climbing perch; Anabas testudineus; A. testudineus

Parts:
  • school; shoal
  • Pisces

Part of:
  • Animalia; kingdom Animalia; animal kingdom
  • Animalia; kingdom Animalia; animal kingdom
  • Chordata; phylum Chordata
  • Vertebrata; subphylum Vertebrata; Craniata; subphylum Craniata
  • Pisces


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