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line fishes

line fishes is the plural of line fish.

Meaning of line fish

Noun

line fish (plural line fishes or line fish)

  1. Fish caught by line fishing.
    • The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line.1880, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council, Journal (volume 30, part 3, page 460)

Questions about line fishes

What is line fishes the plural of?
Line fishes is the plural of line fish.

Words near line fishes in the dictionary

  1. line feeding
  2. line feeds
  3. line fish
  4. line fisher
  5. line fishers
  6. line fishes
  7. line fishing
  8. line function
  9. line functions
  10. line gauge
  11. line gauges

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