pesca — meaning in English

English meaning

• fish noun A cold-blooded animal that lives in water, breathes through gills, and swims using fins.
• fishing noun The activity or sport of catching fish.
• peach noun A soft, juicy fruit with fuzzy yellow-red skin and a large single stone, grown on the Prunus persica tree.

Senses

pesca is used for these senses in English:

• fish (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
• fish (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
• lucky dip (UK) A game in which prizes are covered up and mixed together in a container, so that contestants can dip their hand into the container and randomly pull out a prize.
• peach (uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.

fish — full definition

1. noun A cold-blooded animal that lives in water, breathes through gills, and swims using fins.
2. noun The flesh of such an animal, eaten as food.
3. verb To try to catch fish.
4. verb To search for or try to obtain something indirectly, often through hints or probing questions.

fishing — full definition

1. noun The activity or sport of catching fish.
2. noun The industry of catching fish and seafood commercially.

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