fishkind
fishkind noun: all fishes, considered as a group.
Noun
fishkind (uncountable)
- All fishes, considered as a group.
- A single flirt of the tail, no more vigorous than those he had been used to giving with his legs, would send him whirling around and around in the water, for all the world like a living top; and when he wriggled his fins, ever so slightly, as he thought, he found himself sprawling on his back in a...1919, Norman Hinsdale Pitman, Chinese Wonder Book
- A workaday bird, you take it all in stride and don't pretend to the osprey's glory, scourge of fishkind, or the eagle's, lofty ravager of lesser mammals, but without undue fuss you get the job done.2017, Dan Liberthson, A Poetry of Birds
Proper noun capitalized: Fishkind
Fishkind (plural Fishkinds)
- A surname.
Forms of fishkind
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | fish-kind |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Fishkinds |
Origin of fishkind
From Middle English fisshe kynde, fiscynn, equivalent to fish + -kind.
Variant of Fishkin.
Questions about fishkind
- What does fishkind mean?
- Fishkind means all fishes, considered as a group.
- What part of speech is fishkind?
- Fishkind can be a noun or a proper noun.
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