Fisher

Pronunciation

• Homophones: fissure
• Rhymes: -ɪʃə(r)

fish + -er

Full definition of fisher

Noun

1. A person or ship that is engaged in fishing.

Synonyms

• angler

File:Martes pennanti 2.jpg|thumb|A fisher (Martes tennanti)

tagged, in a cage

From French fichet ("polecat (pelt)"), probably from Dutch visse ("nasty").

Noun

1. A North American marten, , that has thick brown fur.
• 1969, Rutherford George Montgomery, The Living Wilderness, page 13,In many ways the fisher resembles the pine marten, possessing many of the marten's tricks and manners.
• 1998, Thomas E. Kucera, American Marten, Fisher, Lynx, and Wolverine: Survey Methods for Their Detection, page 62,In the southeastern United States, Krohn et al. (1994) hypothesize that the inverse relationship between captures of fishers and martens by commercial trappers may result from an interaction between competitive displacement of marten by fisher and the avoidance of areas with deep and frequent snowfalls by fishers but not martens.
• 2003, Cynthia J. Zabel, Robert G. Anthony, Mammal Community Dynamics, page 207,The term "forest carnivores" denotes a smaller group of four species - the marten, fisher, lynx, and wolverine - and is only marginally descriptive, inasmuch as it excludes many carnivores that live in forests, and includes the wolverine, which can thrive in the complete absence of trees.
2. The fur of Martes pennanti.

Synonyms

• (Martes pennanti) pekan, fisher cat, black cat, fisher marten, big marten, black fox