fishlike

From fish +‎ -like.

fishlike (comparative more fishlike, superlative most fishlike)

1. Having some characteristics of a fish.

   fishlike scales

   fishlike eyes

   fishlike swimming ability

   • 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 213:

     His skin was as scaly as those of some fish I'd seen. His nose was distorted—flattened from having been broken several times—and that enhanced his fishlike appearance.

   • 2013, F. Crescitelli, The Visual System in Vertebrates, page 27:

     The most striking marine reptiles are the fishlike or porpoiselike ichthyosaurs.

• fishly
• fishy

• ichthyic
• piscine