fishlike
adjEtymology From fish + -like.
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Having some characteristics of a fish.
- fishlike scales
- fishlike eyes
4 more examples
- fishlike swimming ability
- fishlike smell
- His skin was as scaly as those of some fish I'd seen. His nose was distorted—flattened from having been broken several times—and that enhanced his fishlike appearance.1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 213:
- The most striking marine reptiles are the fishlike or porpoiselike ichthyosaurs.2013, F. Crescitelli, The Visual System in Vertebrates, page 27:
- Antonyms
- unfishlike, unfishy
- Derived terms
- unfishlike
- Hypernyms
- animallike