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finfish

noun

Etymology

From fin + fish.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. compounded as finfish — “fin + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any fish, but especially fish other than flatfish

  2. Clipped compound of finned fish, as in e.g. ray-finned fish

    Clipped compound of finned fish, as in e.g. ray-finned fish; used to distinguish them from shellfish, cartilaginous fish and other similar aquatic creatures customarily used as food.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for finfish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA