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fishless

fishless adjective: without fish.

Adjective

fishless (not comparable)

  1. Without fish.
    • This chapter describes the present-day colonisation by trout of a previously fishless headwater stream...2006, Graeme Harris, Nigel Milner, Sea Trout: Biology, Conservation and Management

Origin of fishless

From fish + -less.

Words formed from fishless

Questions about fishless

What does fishless mean?
Fishless means without fish.
What part of speech is fishless?
Fishless is an adjective.

Words near fishless in the dictionary

  1. Fishkin
  2. fishkind
  3. Fishkinds
  4. Fishkins
  5. Fishlake
  6. fishless
  7. fishlessness
  8. fishlet
  9. fishlets
  10. Fishley
  11. fishlice

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