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pescaria — meaning in English

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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.

Senses

pescaria 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.
  • fishing (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.

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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