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Words Related to Animals - Marine Fish

Here you will learn the names of marine fish in English such as "sardine", "herring", and "mackerel".

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anchovy
[noun]
a small shoaling fish that is used as food or as bait and resembles herrings
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pilchard
[noun]
a small forage fish that is edible and lives in marine waters, forming large shoals
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ray
[noun]
any marine cartilaginous fish with a flat body and eyes on the upper surface, which swims using large pectoral fins
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salmon
[noun]
a silver-colored fish often found in both freshwater and saltwater environments
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sardine
[noun]
a small oily fish of the herring family with silvery color that is used as food
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shark
[noun]
‌a large sea fish with a pointed fin on its back and very sharp teeth
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skate
[noun]
a large marine fish related to the ray family with a diamond shape and a tail
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snapper
[noun]
any carnivorous warm water perciform fish that is red in color and is valued as food
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sole
[noun]
a marine flatfish of the flounder family which is considered a food fish
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sprat
[noun]
a very small forage fish that is a European marine fish of the herring family, eaten as food
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stingray
[noun]
a large sea fish of the ray family that has a long toxic spine at the base of its tail
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sunfish
[noun]
among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters
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brill
[noun]
a type of flatfish characterized by its oval-shaped body, diamond patterned skin, and delicate, mild-flavored flesh
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cod
[noun]
a large food fish that lives in cold marine waters with a small barbel and three fins on the back
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coelacanth
[noun]
a rare plump marine fish with lobed fins living in Indian Ocean, once thought to be extinct
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dab
[noun]
a small flatfish that lives in deep waters and is eaten as food, originated in the North Atlantic
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dogfish
[noun]
a small shark with a long body that lives at the bottom of the sea
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flounder
[noun]
a small marine food fish of the flatfish species that is found in deep oceanic waters
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flying fish
[noun]
a group of marine fish that have the ability to glide above the water's surface by using their enlarged pectoral fins as wings
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haddock
[noun]
a salt water food fish of the cod family with silvery gray color and a black line under its dorsal fins
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hake
[noun]
any large marine food fish that is related to the Atlantic cod
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halibut
[noun]
a large marine flatfish that is eaten as food, especially on Catholic holy days
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herring
[noun]
a mostly coastal fish of silvery color that moves in large shoals and is largely consumed as food
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lemon sole
[noun]
a flatfish species found in the North Atlantic Ocean, known for its lemon-yellow coloration on the upper side
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mackerel
[noun]
a migratory marine fish with greenish blue bars on its body which is a scombroid and is a commercially important game fish
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marlin
[noun]
a very large marine fish that has a long body and a long bill inhabiting warm waters, which is caught for sport
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swordfish
[noun]
a large migratory marine fish that has a very long pointed snout and is both a food and a game fish
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tunny
[noun]
a large fish which is eaten as food
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turbot
[noun]
a large European flatfish native to North Atlantic that is an important food fish
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whiting
[noun]
a food fish of the Eastern Atlantic Ocean of the cod family that is also known as English whiting
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whitebait
[noun]
the young of European herrings that are silvery white and edible
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conger
[noun]
a large predatory eel with dark color that lives in shallow coastal waters and is eaten as food
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beluga
[noun]
a small sub-Arctic whale that is white, from which caviar is taken
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codfish
[noun]
a large food fish that lives in cold marine waters with a small barbel and three fins on the back
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wrasse
[noun]
a tropical marine fish with bright colors and wide lips that is kept in aquariums
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rainbow trout
[noun]
a cold water coastal fish that is a salmonid and is caught for food or sport, which has green, white, pink, etc. color bands on its body
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barracouta
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a thin and bony marine fish that is eaten as food, caught in southern oceans
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pollock
[noun]
a North Atlantic marine fish that resembles cod and is used as food
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horse mackerel
[noun]
an East Atlantic food fish of the jack family that lives in large schools and is caught in Southern Africa
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manta
[noun]
a very large tropical fish of the ray family that moves its triangular sides as wings in order to swim
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pufferfish
[noun]
any tropical marine fish with no scale that fills with air in the face of threat and is highly poisonous
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lanternfish
[noun]
a small bony marine fish with a large mouth and eyes, which has spots on its skin that shine in the dark
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dory
[noun]
a deep-bodied and large-eyed marine fish that can open its mouth very wide
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barramundi
[noun]
a large perch-like fish that is originally from Australia, which migrates down rivers to the sea in order to spawn
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bluefish
[noun]
a tropical marine fish that is blue in color and predatory, which is caught for food
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atlantic salmon
[noun]
a ray-finned fish of the salmon family that is used as food and migrates to freshwater streams in order to spawn
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skipjack
[noun]
a mid-sized perciform fish of the tuna family that has dark horizontal stripes
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mudskipper
[noun]
an amphibious fish of the goby family that is able to move around on mud or wet sand
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eel
[noun]
a long and thin freshwater or marine fish that is like a snake, sometimes eaten as food
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John Dory
[noun]
a coastal marine game fish with a wide olive-colored body and long dorsal fins
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tuna fish
[noun]
important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae
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bull shark
[noun]
an aggressive type of shark that lives in warm and shallow waters near coastlines
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hammerhead
[noun]
a type of shark with a unique head shape that is wide and flattened, resembling the shape of a hammer
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yellowtail
[noun]
a species of fish characterized by its yellow-colored tail fin and its firm, flavorful flesh
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