'fish'
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3 letters

COD
Lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached

EEL
Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

DAB
A light touch or stroke

BIB
A napkin tied under the chin of a child while eating

GAR
Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters

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BASS
Nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes

ORFE

SOLE
Lean flesh of any of several flatfish

DACE
Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body

PIKE
A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

CHAR
Any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus

CHUB
European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body

CARP
Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae

SHAD
Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast

TUNA
New Zealand eel

HAKE
Any of several marine food fishes related to cod

EELS

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TRAWL
A conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths

BREAM
Any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis

GHOTI

TROUT
Any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons

ANGLE
A biased way of looking at or presenting something

ROACH
European freshwater food fish having a greenish back

TENCH
Freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water

PERCH
Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes

SPRAT
Small herring processed like a sardine

SMELT
Small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters

TROLL
Angling by drawing a baited line through the water

TUNNY
Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters

SKATE
Large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins

LINGS

BRILL
European food fish

MOLLY
Popular aquarium fish

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WRASSE
Chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored

MULLET
Bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin

PISCES
A group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates; not used technically

SALMON
A pale pinkish orange color

PLAICE
Large European food fish

TURBOT
A large brownish European flatfish

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WHITING
Any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters

HERRING
Commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific

HADDOCK
Important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller

ANCHOVY
Small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide

HALIBUT
Marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes

PIRANHA
Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals

BLOATER
Large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked

SNAPPER
Large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite

GURNARD
Bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom

SARDINE
Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

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SEATROUT
Silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn

SEAHORSE
Small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position

MACKEREL
Any of various fishes of the family Scombridae

GRAYLING

PILCHARD
Small fatty fish usually canned

STURGEON
Large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone

FLOUNDER
Any of various European and non-European marine flatfish

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LEMONSOLE
European flatfish highly valued as food

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STICKLEBACK
Small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research

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RAINBOWTROUT
Flesh of Pacific trout that migrate from salt to fresh water

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PISCESTHEFISHES
The twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20