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Defenition of the word shoal

    • Defenition of the word shoal

      • Group of a large number of fish (or other sea animals, such as dolphins or whales), normally from the same species, that swim together.
      • A somewhat linear landform within or extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt or small pebbles.
      • full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters"
      • a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by"
      • become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
      • make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
      • a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
      • a stretch of shallow water
      • a large group of fish
      • become shallow
      • make shallow

    Synonyms for the word shoal

      • reefy
      • school
      • shallow
      • shelfy
      • shelvy
      • shoaly

    Similar words in the shoal

      • shallow

    Meronymys for the word shoal

      • fish

    Hypernyms for the word shoal

      • alter
      • animal group
      • body of water
      • change
      • modify
      • sandbank
      • water

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