FRESHWATER FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freshwater fish mean? 

• FRESHWATER FISH (noun)
  The noun FRESHWATER FISH has 1 sense:

1. flesh of fish from fresh water used as food

  Familiarity information: FRESHWATER FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRESHWATER FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flesh of fish from fresh water used as food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("freshwater fish" is a kind of...):

seafood (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freshwater fish"):

bream; freshwater bream (flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe)

bass; freshwater bass (any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus))

carp (the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised)

buffalofish (large carp-like North American fish)

pike (highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh)

sucker (flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws)

catfish; mudcat (flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed)

perch (any of numerous fishes of America and Europe)

sunfish (the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae)

brook trout; speckled trout (a delicious freshwater food fish)

lake trout (flesh of large trout of northern lakes)

whitefish (flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)

 Context examples 

This study focuses on a species of freshwater fish, tilapia.

(Steaming Fish More Healthy than Boiling, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The fishing of the tambaqui – a large freshwater fish native to South America – that usually happens before its reproductive season in October, is increasingly affected by flooding.

(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)

Researchers found that steaming freshwater fish for more than two minutes reduces the presence of cylindrospermopsin, a poisonous substance, by up to 26%.

(Steaming Fish More Healthy than Boiling, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)