fishes

noun

1. plural of fish

2. (universal) multiple kinds of fish

- Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.

3. (usually nonstandard or archaic) multiple aquatic, cold-blooded, vertebrate animals

- I caught six fishes today!

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of fish

- He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.