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Panfish
Any fish that is suitable for cooking in a frying pan by virtue of its size and taste.
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Any fish that is suitable for cooking in a frying pan by virtue of its size and taste.
"Panfish are caught primarily for eating, rather than for sport."
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| panfishingnoun | The process of fishing for panfish. |
| fish frynoun | (US) A meal, especially a cookout, featuring deep-fried, battered fish. |
| fish kettlenoun | (cooking) A type of large pan, usually long with rounded corners, used to steam fish. |
| fishlingnoun | A small or young fish; fry. |
| fish fingernoun | (chiefly UK, Ireland) A rectangular stick of processed fish coated in breadcrumbs that is cooked by frying or grilling. |
| fish sticknoun | (US) A rectangular piece of processed fish coated in breadcrumbs that is cooked by frying or grilling. |
| whitefishnoun | Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food. |
| food fishnoun | Any fish used as human food. |
| catfishnoun | (Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people. |
| sunperchnoun | (US) Regional name for any of various North American sunfish caught as panfish. |
| finfishnoun | (informal) Clipped compound of finned fish, as in e.g. ray-finned fish; used to distinguish them from shellfish, cartilaginous fish and other similar aquatic creatures customarily used as food. |
| kingfishnoun | king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla) |
| studfishnoun | Any of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, such as Fundulus catenatus. |
| rough fishnoun | Any fish not considered valuable as sport fish nor used as bait or for food. |
| sunfishnoun | Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body. |
| fishfingernoun | Alternative form of fish finger. [(chiefly UK, Ireland) A rectangular stick of processed fish coated in breadcrumbs that is cooked by frying or grilling.] |
| foodfishnoun | Alternative form of food fish. [Any fish used as human food.] |
| small frynoun | (idiomatic) One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value. |
| roundfishnoun | Any fish that is not a flatfish. |
| tilefishnoun | Any of the mostly small, perciform marine fish in the family Malacanthidae; an important food fish. |
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