shoal

/ʃˈə‍ʊl/

/ʃˈoʊl/

Shoal

a large number of fish swimming together

synonyms : school

a stretch of shallow water

synonyms : shallow

a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide

to shoal

MAIN VERB

become shallow

synonyms : shallow

make shallow

synonyms : shallow

Examples

1. Now, what are these shoals?

2. A shoal of pygmy devil rays, cousins of the manta ray, pursues the bait fish.

3. Immense shoals of fish throng our shallow seas.

4. Today, the lives of five million cormorants and boobies depend on the great shoals.