food fish
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1. any fish used for food by human beings (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | fish, |
| definition | : | any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bottom fish, groundfish, |
| definition | : | fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | barracouta, snoek, |
| definition | : | a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | shad, |
| definition | : | herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | clupea harangus, herring, |
| definition | : | commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sardine, |
| definition | : | any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | salmon, |
| definition | : | any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | trout, |
| definition | : | any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | whitefish, |
| definition | : | silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sea bass, |
| definition | : | any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | snapper, |
| definition | : | any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | tuna, tunny, |
| definition | : | any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sole, |
| definition | : | right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European (noun.animal) |
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