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fish ladders

fish ladders is the plural of fish ladder.

Meaning of fish ladder

Noun

fish ladder (plural fish ladders)

  1. A structure built on or around dams or locks to facilitate the migration of fish.
    • We came to the base of an abnormally long perpendicular fish ladder, stretching up, up into shadow so overwhelmingly deep it seemed as if a pit had been inverted over our heads.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck

Questions about fish ladders

What is fish ladders the plural of?
Fish ladders is the plural of fish ladder.

Words near fish ladders in the dictionary

  1. fish kills
  2. fish knife
  3. fish knives
  4. fish kropeck
  5. fish ladder
  6. fish ladders
  7. Fish Lake
  8. Fish Lake physa
  9. Fish Lake physae
  10. Fish Lake physas
  11. fish lice

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