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cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate having gills and fins; a zodiacal constellation between Aries and Aquarius; Pisces; to try to catch fish in; to try to catch fish; to search carefully

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Usage examples (35)
  • But these can work too well, making the lure also fishless.
  • Later Pleistocene glaciation left numerous naturally-fishless lakes.
  • In one lake the tide left a dozen or more small fishes, while the other was fishless.
  • Weighted with lead wire and dead-drifted deep, Muskrats have saved me from many a fishless day.
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