fish vs fishes
fish
Definitions
noun
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
verb
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
- seek indirectly
Examples
Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish.
They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
