Meaning | Any fish used for food by human beings. |
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Narrower | barracouta, snoek | A large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa |
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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 |
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Spanish | pescado |
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Catalan | peix |
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