Is fishes a real word?

Can you use fishes in a sentence?

Singular Example: The fishes is the most diverse group of vertebrates. Plural Example: There are over 33,000 species of fishes.

Which are fishes?

Fish are aquatic vertebrate animals that have gills but lack limbs with digits, like fingers or toes. Recall that vertebrates are animals with internal backbones.

Why are fishes called fish?

The term “fish” most precisely describes any non-tetrapod craniate (i.e. an animal with a skull and in most cases a backbone) that has gills throughout life and whose limbs, if any, are in the shape of fins.

Is fish countable or uncountable?

Fish is both countable and uncountable depending on whether you mean the animal – I see three fish – or the food – I eat lots of fish.

Is fish meat or fish?

Fish is the flesh of an animal used for food, and by that definition, it’s meat. However, many religions don’t consider it meat. There are also several important distinctions between fish and other types of meat, especially in terms of their nutritional profiles and potential health benefits.

Can I say a fish?

It is perfectly correct, grammatically, to say “a fish” or “a sheep”. Fish however is one of those words that has two correct plurals – so in modern English we would say “a school of fish” (not “school of fishes”) , but will also accept the obsolete plural “fishes” … as in the Biblical … “loaves and fishes”.

Can I say two fishes?

The plural of fish is usually fish. When referring to more than one species of fish, especially in a scientific context, you can use fishes as the plural.

What does fishes mean in slang?

Fish, appearing especially in the phrase fresh fish, is prison slang for new, first-time inmates, usually considered naive and vulnerable. Fish, often appearing in the form of fishy or the phrase serving fish, is also slang in drag culture for a very feminine drag queen.

Can fishes talk?

Fish have long been known to communicate by several silent mechanisms, but more recently researchers have found evidence that some species also use sound. It is well known that fish communicate by gesture and motion, as in the highly regimented synchronized swimming of schools of fish.

Do fishes sleep?

While fish do not sleep in the same way that land mammals sleep, most fish do rest. Research shows that fish may reduce their activity and metabolism while remaining alert to danger. Some fish float in place, some wedge themselves into a secure spot in the mud or coral, and some even locate a suitable nest.

Can fishes feel pain?

A significant body of scientific evidence suggests that yes, fish can feel pain. Their complex nervous systems, as well as how they behave when injured, challenge long-held beliefs that fish can be treated without any real regard for their welfare.

Do fishes drink water?

As well as getting water through osmosis, saltwater fish need to purposefully drink water in order to get enough into their systems. Where their freshwater counterparts direct all of the water that comes into their mouths out through their gills, saltwater fish direct some into their digestive tract.

Can fishes cry?

No, fishes can’t cry and can’t produce tears.

It is often thought that fish may lack the limbic system, but in reality, fishes do have a limbic system, but they lack the biological machinery to produce tears.

Do fish have brains?

Fish typically have quite small brains relative to body size compared with other vertebrates, typically one-fifteenth the brain mass of a similarly sized bird or mammal.

Can fishes be thirsty?

The answer is still no; as they live in water they probably don’t take it in as a conscious response to seek out and drink water. Thirst is usually defined as a need or desire to drink water. It is unlikely that fish are responding to such a driving force.

Do fishes poop and pee?

Yes they do! But why? Well, like most living things, fish too produce waste from their metabolic processes. Peeing is one way of doing that and is referred to as excretion.