bycatch

1. 1.

   unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species

   “thousands of dolphins and porpoises and whales are killed as part of the by-catch each year”

   Synonymsby-catch

   Broadermarine animal

Other forms of bycatch

plural

bycatches·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bycatch

What does bycatch mean?

bycatch means "unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species".

How many syllables are in bycatch?

bycatch has 2 syllables: by-catch. The stress falls on "by".

What is another word for bycatch?

Close synonyms include by-catch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bycatch a common word?

bycatch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.