Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of fish or fishes suitable for and used as food.

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Examples

  • What you will find are ads showing dead tuna, stripers etc (though not too many), but I think those are more accepted as food-fish as well as gamefish.

    Classic F&S Vintage Fishing Ads 2009

  • What you will find are ads showing dead tuna, stripers etc (though not too many), but I think those are more accepted as food-fish as well as gamefish.

    Classic F&S Vintage Fishing Ads 2009

  • What you will find are ads showing dead tuna, stripers etc (though not too many), but I think those are more accepted as food-fish as well as gamefish.

    Classic F&S Vintage Fishing Ads 2009

  • What you will find are ads showing dead tuna, stripers etc (though not too many), but I think those are more accepted as food-fish as well as gamefish.

    Classic F&S Vintage Fishing Ads 2009

  • What you will find are ads showing dead tuna, stripers etc (though not too many), but I think those are more accepted as food-fish as well as gamefish.

    Classic F&S Vintage Fishing Ads 2009

  • What you will find are ads showing dead tuna, stripers etc (though not too many), but I think those are more accepted as food-fish as well as gamefish.

    Classic F&S Vintage Fishing Ads 2009

  • A new, GM food-fish grows at three times the normal rate, and produces human-ready blood-clotting factors at the same time.

    Boing Boing: August 12, 2001 - August 18, 2001 Archives 2001

  • Department of Agriculture's modern food-fish pond-development program by more than a century.

    The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia James Wharton

  • Following out the lad's interest in the whole trout question, Dr. Jimson taught him nearly all there was to know about the various members of the salmon and trout family, one of the most important food-fish groups of the world.

    The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • Some of these were magnificent food-fish, weighing 150 to 200 pounds.

    White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

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