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Definition of "fishlike" [fish•like]

  • Having some characteristics of a fish. (adjective)
  • Similar to that of a fish; as, fishlike scales, fishlike eyes (adjective)

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Use "fishlike" in a sentence
  • "How often as a boy had he been rapped into a galvanic activity out of the deep reveries he used to fall into -- those fits of a kind of fishlike day-dream."
  • "We watched him move around, fishlike, on the sonogram."
  • " As you watch, he becomes ever smaller, less defined, finally a little fishlike creature, then a blob, and finally a few cells that dwindle on the floor and disappear."
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