WordNet Search - 3.1

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Noun

S: (n) by-catch, bycatch (unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species) "thousands of dolphins and porpoises and whales are killed as part of the by-catch each year"

direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

S: (n) marine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature (any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals)

S: (n) by-catch, bycatch (unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species) "thousands of dolphins and porpoises and whales are killed as part of the by-catch each year"