fish
/fɪʃ/
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Translation
An animal that lives in water and swims, with no legs.
Word origin
From Old English fisc, the word for the water animal, shared across the old Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- fisc
Grammar
Gender
Pluralfish
Examples
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"Fish" is an animal that lives in water.
.
"Fish" stays the same for more than one.
dinner.
Here "fish" is the animal used as food.
A fish is an animal that lives in water and swims with its tail and fins. It has no legs. We say one fish or many fish, with the same word for both. People also eat fish as food.
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