food_fish (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *food fish*:
NOUN	animal	food fish	any fish used for food by human beings

English > *food fish*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Any fish used for food by human beings.
Narrower	barracouta, snoek	A large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa
	groundfish, bottom fish	fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder)
	herring, Clupea harangus	commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
	salmon	Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters
	sardine	Any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
	sea bass	Any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
	shad	Herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn
	snapper	Any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
	sole	right-eyed flatfish
	trout	Any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
	tuna, tunny	Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus
	whitefish	silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
Broader	fish	Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
Spanish	pescado
Catalan	peix

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