Definition of "fishes"

plural of fish

1. (universal) multiple kinds of fish  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes

     2007, “Weird Fishes”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead

2. (usually nonstandard or archaic) multiple individual fish  quotations

   Quotations

   • "The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."

     1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887

third-person singular simple present indicative of fish  examples