YOUNG FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does young fish mean? 

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

1. a fish that is young

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUNG FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fish that is young

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

offspring; young (any immature animal)

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 "young fish"):

parr (the young of various fishes)

whitebait (the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts)

brit; britt (the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish)

parr (a young salmon up to 2 years old)

 Context examples 

Last year, we showed that those degraded reefs sound quieter and different than healthy reefs; crucially, we also showed with field experiments that the sounds of degraded reefs are less attractive to young fish than are the sounds of healthy reefs, Radford says.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)