GOLDFISH (goldfishes)

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Irregular inflected form: goldfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does goldfish mean? 

• GOLDFISH (noun)
  The noun GOLDFISH has 1 sense:

1. small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes

  Familiarity information: GOLDFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLDFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Carassius auratus; goldfish

Hypernyms ("goldfish" is a kind of...):

cyprinid; cyprinid fish (soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales)

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

silverfish (a silvery variety of Carassius auratus)

Holonyms ("goldfish" is a member of...):

Carassius; genus Carassius (goldfish)