fishlike
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- adjective
- /ˈfɪʃlaɪk/
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similar a un pez
- They do want his fishlike building to sustain their claim to cultural nationhood, and this compounds the contradiction: however it divides among Jewish, Canadian, and American, the building does not seem at all Basque.
- fishlike creatures
Examples
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Gorged with food, the monster finds its way into the basement of the house, where it gives birth to thousands of spawn: fishlike creatures with insatiable appetites.
Fiction book (2000) -
They were close enough for the crew to hear the snapping of wide, fishlike jaws, and the slicing noise of the two massive rafts' passage over the water.
Fiction book (1992) -
It is, however, as close a relative to a tetrapod as it could be while still being fishlike.
Academic text (2006) -
One of the fishlike embryos stirred in its harness.
Fiction book (2000) -
A contingent of New Republic Honor Guard stood waiting there, along with Commander Ackdool, a Mon Calamarian with large, probing eyes, a fishlike face, and salmon-colored skin.
Fiction book (2000) -
It turns out that the receptors in the front are all made by the most primitive, fishlike genes in the frog's olfactory collection; those in the rear are formed by the new class of genes shared by every land vertebrate.
Academic text (2002) -
His discoveries included Tiktaalik roseae, the 375 million-year-old fossil of a fishlike creature, which Jenkins and colleagues called the missing link between fish and four-legged animals.
Blog text (13) -
The creature had fishlike features, with scales and fins that glistened in the water.
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She admired the fishlike shape of the sculpture, which reminded her of a graceful manta ray.
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With its long, slender body and streamlined movement, the animal appeared very fishlike as it swam through the ocean.
Synonyms
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Smelling or tasting like fish
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Like a fish, often described in poems about the sea
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That has the shape or behavior of a shark
About fish or looking like a fish
A long thin shape that bends and twists smoothly
With a long, thin body like an eel
Having the shape, color, or movement of a trout, often slim and spotted
Like a trout in color or smell
Having a pointed nose and sharp teeth like a big sea fish
How Sharklike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fishlike is just fish + -like, where -like means 'similar to'. So something fishlike looks or moves like 'a fish', for example having a tail or scales, and the word means 'resembling a fish'.