Definition of Fishes. Meaning of Fishes. Synonyms of Fishes

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Definition of Fishes

Fishes
Finch Finch, n.; pl. Fishes. [AS. finc; akin to D. vink, OHG. fincho, G. fink; cf. W. pinc a finch; also E. spink.] (Zo["o]l.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillid[ae]. Note: The word is often used in composition, as in chaffinch, goldfinch, grassfinch, pinefinch, etc. Bramble finch. See Brambling. Canary finch, the canary bird. Copper finch. See Chaffinch. Diamond finch. See under Diamond. Finch falcon (Zo["o]l.), one of several very small East Indian falcons of the genus Hierax. To pull a finch, to swindle an ignorant or unsuspecting person. [Obs.] ``Privily a finch eke could he pull.' --Chaucer.

Meaning of Fishes from wikipedia

- fishes, and early sharks, earning the Devonian the epithet "the age of fishes". Fishes are a paraphyletic group, since any clade containing all fish,...
- modified bony fishes, and so we are comfortable with using the taxon Osteichthyes as a clade, which now includes all tetrapods... Fishes of the World (5th...
- "Fishes" (titled "The Berzattos" on-screen) is the sixth episode of the second season and 14th episode overall of the American comedy-drama series The...
- lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep-sea fish. Other deep-sea fishes include the flashlight fish, cookiecutter shark, bristlemouths, anglerfish...
- Evolution of Parental Care in Fishes, with reference to Darwin's rule of male ****ual selection". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 6 (2): 223–251. Bibcode:1981EnvBF...
- evolutionary relationships. List of cartilaginous fish Cartilaginous versus bony fishes Largest cartilaginous fishes Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRA) Threatened...
- xerampelina. Male cartilaginous fishes (sharks and rays), as well as the males of some live-bearing ray finned fishes, have fins that have been modified...
- cartilaginous fishes (see below), which have skeletons made mainly of cartilage (except for their teeth, fin spines, and denticles). Bony fishes are divided...
- bony fish, demonstrating that the absence of a bony skeleton in Chondrichthyes is a derived trait. The fossil findings of primitive bony fishes such as...
- Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Anglerfishes are classified by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World as set out below into 5 suborders and 18 families. The following...