fishes vs fish

Definitions

noun

1. any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
2. the flesh of fish used as food

verb

1. catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
2. 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.

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