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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

physical entity go
an entity that has physical existence

object, physical object go
a tangible and visible entity

whole, unit go
an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity

living thing, animate thing go
a living (or once living) entity

organism, being go
a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna go
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

chordate go
any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column

vertebrate, craniate go
animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

aquatic vertebrate go
animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water

fish go
any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills

bony fish go
any fish of the class Osteichthyes

teleost fish, teleost, teleostan go
a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei

spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays

noun.animal

21 Subcategories

squirrelfish go
very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs
anomalops, flashlight fish go
fish having a luminous organ beneath eye
flashlight fish, Photoblepharon palpebratus go
fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye
dory go
marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
boarfish, Capros aper go
fish with a projecting snout
boarfish go
fish with large eyes and long snouts
stickleback, prickleback go
small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship
batfish go
bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
monkfish, goosefish, angler, anglerfish, angler fish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus go
fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
toadfish, Opsanus tau go
bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth
frogfish go
fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout
sargassum fish go
small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum
percoid fish, percoid, percoidean go
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
remora, suckerfish, sucking fish go
marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
silversides, silverside go
small fishes having a silver stripe along each side
barracuda go
any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth
sand lance, sand launce, sand eel, launce go
very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
dragonet go
small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers
scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish go
fishes having the head armored with bony plates
plectognath, plectognath fish go
tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
flatfish go
any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side