BAITFISH Synonyms

• tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces

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

• (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

• an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life

• a young or small fish

• a young person of either sex

• English painter and art critic (1866-1934)

• English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)

• be excessively hot

• cook in hot fat or oil

• kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair

• very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams

• small fatty fish usually canned

• any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

• a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

• small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

• a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye

• something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)

• important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales

• any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis

• small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States

• small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water

• small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters

• extract (metals) by heating