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Found 2 items, similar to billfish.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: billfish
billfish
n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard
scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth [syn:
gar,
garfish,
garpike,
Lepisosteus osseus]
2: giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded
toothless upper jaw
3: slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn:
saury,
Scomberesox saurus]
4: elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with
long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters [syn:
needlefish,
gar]
[also:
billfishes (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: billfish
Saury
\Sau"ry\, n.; pl.
Sauries. [Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zo["o]l.)
A slender marine fish (
Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and
America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also
billfish,
gowdnook,
gawnook,
skipper,
skipjack,
skopster,
lizard fish, and
Egypt herring.
[1913 Webster]
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