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sweetfishes

sweetfishes is the plural of sweetfish.

Meaning of sweetfish

Noun

sweetfish (plural sweetfishes or sweetfish)

  1. An amphidromous fish, the ayu of East Asia (Plecoglossus altivelis), the only member of its genus and family Plecoglossidae, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh, especially in Japan, as a game fish, and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.
    Synonyms:
    ayu, ai

Questions about sweetfishes

What is sweetfishes the plural of?
Sweetfishes is the plural of sweetfish.

Words near sweetfishes in the dictionary

  1. sweetest-natured
  2. sweetest-scented
  3. sweetest-smelling
  4. sweetfaced
  5. sweetfish
  6. sweetfishes
  7. sweetflag
  8. sweetful
  9. sweetfully
  10. sweetfulness
  11. sweetgale

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