fishbelly

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the underside or belly of a fish

   The fishbelly was pale against the dark scales of its back.

2. 2
   adj

   pale, whitish, or silvery like the underside of a fish, especially in the compound fishbelly white

   A fishbelly light spread across the sky before dawn.

A compound of fish + belly. The literal underside of a fish, often noticeably pale, produced an attributive color comparison in expressions such as fish-belly white.

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