fishes

noun

1. (universal)plural of fish

   “Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.”

   “sleep with the fishes.”

   “I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes”

2. plural of fish

   “I caught six fishes today!”

   “Thẽ ſayde they vnto hĩ: we have here but .v. loves and two fyſſhes.”

   “"The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."”

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of fish

   “He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.”

name

1. 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.”

   “For 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.”

2. (form-of, plural)plural of Fish