OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1696

fish

/fɪʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
peje • pescado • pesce (disused) • pez
A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Salmon is a fish.
The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.
pesca
A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
pescado
The flesh of the fish used as food.
The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 1697

fish

/fɪʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pescar
To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
She went to the river to fish for trout.
We went fishing for crabs by the pier.