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  • 51Fish — 1. n. & v. n. (pl. same or fishes) 1 a vertebrate cold blooded animal with gills and fins living wholly in water. 2 any animal living wholly in water, e.g. cuttlefish, shellfish, jellyfish. 3 the flesh of fish as food. 4 colloq. a person… …

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  • 52fry — fry1 S3 [fraı] v past tense and past participle fried present participle frying third person singular fries [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: frire, from Latin frigere] 1.) [I and T] to cook something in hot fat or oil, or to be cooked in… …

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  • 53fish — fish1 [ fıʃ ] (plural fish or fish|es) noun *** 1. ) count an animal that lives in water and swims. It breathes by using its gills and moves by using its tail and fins . Saltwater fish live in the ocean and freshwater fish live in rivers and… …

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  • 54fry — [[t]fra͟ɪ[/t]] ♦♦♦ fries, frying, fried 1) VERB When you fry food, you cook it in a pan that contains hot fat or oil. [V n] Fry the breadcrumbs until golden brown. [V ed] ...fried rice. 2) N PLURAL Fry are very small, young fish. 3) N PLURAL… …

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  • 55fish — I UK [fɪʃ] / US noun Word forms fish : singular fish plural fish or fishes *** 1) [countable] an animal that lives in water and swims. It breathes by using its gills and moves by using its tail and fins. Saltwater fish live in the sea and… …

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  • 56fry — Synonyms and related words: Loch Ness monster, alevin, bake, barbecue, baste, be in heat, benthon, benthos, blanch, blaze, bloom, boil, braise, brew, broil, brood, brown, burn, casserole, cetacean, choke, clutch, coddle, combust, cook, course,… …

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  • 57fish — noun 1 animal that lives and breathes in water ADJECTIVE ▪ freshwater, marine, saltwater, sea ▪ cold water, tropical ▪ aquarium ▪ …

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  • 58fish — Synonyms and related words: C, C note, Chinook salmon, G, G note, Loch Ness monster, Sunapee trout, aerial torpedo, albacore, alevin, alewife, alligator gar, amber jack, anchovy, angel fish, angle, anguille, archerfish, argusfish, babe, bait the… …

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  • 59fish — fish1 noun (plural same or fishes) 1》 a limbless cold blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins, living wholly in water.     ↘the flesh of fish as food. 2》 used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, e.g. shellfish,… …

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  • 60fish — [[t]fɪʃ[/t]] n. pl. (esp. collectively)fish, (esp. for kinds or species)fish•es 1) ich any of various cold blooded, aquatic vertebrates having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales: includes three unrelated… …

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