- Common european fish - Fish - Fish, often called snapper - Food fish - Freshwater fish - Pond fish - A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis,
little valued as food. Several species are known.
- Small food fish - Small sea fish - Type of fish - of White - A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the
Codfish family; -- called also fittin. - A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the
preceding; -- called also silver hake. - Any one of several species of North American marine
sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M.
Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common
from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf
whiting.
- A large amount (coll) - Large amount of money (coll) - Large quantity - Tramp’s belongings - A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on the
European coast, and less common on the American. The name is applied
also to several allied species. - The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See Goggler. - The friar skate.
- Freshwater fish - Slender European fish - Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of
the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more
barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The
common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.
- Food fish - Freshwater fish - A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp
family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven.
In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of
the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to
several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.
- Edible flatfish - European fish - Flatfish - A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed
as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color
on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered
over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also
bannock fluke. - Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less
related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder
(see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta
guttulata) of California. - The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda. - The trigger fish.
- A fish - Common fish - Common fish; heather - Common heather - A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern
Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted
and dried. Called also drizzle. - The burbot of Lake Ontario. - An American hake of the genus Phycis.