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Definition of Fishlike
1. a. Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish.
Definition of Fishlike
1. Adjective. Having some characteristics of a fish. ¹
2. Adjective. Similar to that of a fish; as, fishlike scales, fishlike eyes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fishlike
1. resembling a fish [adj]
Medical Definition of Fishlike
1. Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish. "A very ancient and fishlike smell." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishlike
Literary usage of Fishlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Composition-rhetoric by Stratton Duluth Brooks, Marietta Hubbard (1905)
"Instead of going on and developing into a fishlike creature, it loses its notochord,
its special sense organs, and other organs; it loses its complexity and ..."
2. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Instead of going on and developing into a fishlike creature, it loses its notochord,
its special sense organs, and other organs; it loses its complexity and ..."
3. The Various Writings of Cornelius Mathews by Cornelius Mathews (1863)
"Chatham square is a singular locality—" a most ancient and fishlike" place.
Any time in the day before two in the afternoon, you will see there as motley ..."
4. Bird Woman (Sacajawea) the Guide of Lewis and Clark: Her Own Story Now First by James Willard Schultz (1918)
"... and it had fishlike fins where its front legs should have been, and its body
ended in a fishlike tail. Yes, and the noise that it made was much like the ..."
5. Revised Text-book of Geology by James Dwight Dana, William North Rice (1897)
"The Ichthyosaurs, Reptiles degraded to fishlike form and habit, did not appear
till the Triassic, although Reptiles of more normal structure were already in ..."
6. Practical Zoology by Robert William Hegner (1915)
"The simplest group of fishlike animals are the lamprey eels and hagfishes. ...
This fishlike creature inhabits the waters along the Atlantic coast of North ..."
7. Geology of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Simple Language by John Walter Gregory (1915)
"The modern dolphins and porpoises are fishlike mammals which have descended ...
were fishlike reptiles, which were descended from the land reptiles of the ..."
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