shoal
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5.5
- noun
- /ʃoʊl/
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banco
- The small boat was surrounded by a large shoal of colorful tropical fish.
- shoal of fish
- shoal of sardines
- huge shoals
And it's like, have you ever seen those videos of swordfish moving through Shoals?
- And it's like, have you ever seen those videos of swordfish moving through Shoals?
Examples
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It's just a shoal of fish.
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Located near a shoal in the stream, great salmon threshed in the water all night long in their effort to ascend the stream.
Academic text (1997) -
We gotta set up a watch and look out for a shoal.
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The sardine shoals have broken their cover, and the dolphins close in quickly.
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The groups range widely in pursuit of shoals of their preferred food: squid.
Academic text (1995) -
In better times, my father and I had once chartered a boat to troll for king mackerel past the shoals.
Fiction book (1998) -
They were flashing the fast, subtle signals employed by a shoal sentinel, warning of the approach of a predator.
Fiction book (2000) -
Indistinct shadows flickered through the gloom, fish shoals playing along the edges of my sight.
Fiction book (1999) -
Mostly, the fishermen in their fragile boats preferred to keep together and net the thinner shoals in the middle flats of the lagoon rather than risk going near the marshes.
Fiction book (1994) -
During the summer, you can often see a shoal of fish near the coral reef.
Synonyms
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3.9
A large group of fish that swim together
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shoal for a group of fish comes from an old word meaning 'crowd' and is like the word school when fish move together, so a shoal is simply many fish swimming as one.