fins and scales
Swimming creature's features
Fins and scales is a phrase from Jewish dietary law (kashrut) describing the two features a water creature must have to be kosher.
Fish like salmon and tuna qualify; shellfish, eels, and catfish do not.
The phrase appears in discussions of kosher food or, more loosely, as shorthand for religious dietary restrictions: Does this restaurant do fins and scales?
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
- gillsAquatic respiratory organs
- gill slitsRespiratory openings in fish
- swim bladderFish buoyancy organ
- sea creatureOcean-inhabiting organism
swimming · tail · aquatic · mermaid · shark · trout · salmon · slippery · shimmery · iridescent · underwater · deep sea · streamlined · school of fish · flippers · dorsal · propel · glide
fins and scalesshellfish
Aquatic creatures with exoskeletons
scavengers · unclean animals · crustaceans · bottom feeders · mollusks
fin, fins, finned, finning, scale, scales, scaled, scaling, scaly