Home › Words › B › beshowbeshow/bɪˈʃəʊ/beshow means A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; the candlefish or sablefish.beshow is pronounced /bɪˈʃəʊ/.EtymologyFrom Makah bishowk, cognate to Nootka mišawiḥ.nounA large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; the candlefish or sablefish.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.sablefish 66% match — A dark-coloured marine fish of species Anoplopoma fimbria, of North American Pacific waters. vs beshow →candlefish 63% match — An oily edible fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, from the northern Pacific, that was once dried and used as a candle or torch by the Chinook Indians. vs beshow →bandfish 58% match — Any of many perciform fish of the family Cepolidae vs beshow →skil 58% match — Synonym of sablefish. vs beshow →coalfish 58% match — Any of several blackish fish, especially Pollachius virens, a pollack, and Anoplopoma fimbria, sablefish. vs beshow →skilfish 58% match — A fish, of the genus Erilepis, found on deep rocky bottoms in the North Pacific. vs beshow →henfish 58% match — Any of species Brama brama of marine fish (black seabream, Atlantic pomfret) . vs beshow →gemfish 57% match — A bottom-dwelling fish of the family Gempylidae, inhabiting deep waters off southern Australia. vs beshow →