FOOD FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does food fish mean? 

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

1. any fish used for food by human beings

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOD FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any fish used for food by human beings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

bottom fish; groundfish (fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder))

barracouta; snoek (a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa)

shad (herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn)

Clupea harangus; herring (commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific)

sardine (any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned)

salmon (any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn)

trout (any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons)

whitefish (silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)

sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)

snapper (any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters)

tuna; tunny (any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters)

sole (right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European)