Found 4 items, similar to Swordfish.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: swordfish
ikan todak
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: swordfish
ikan todak
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: swordfish
swordfish
n 1: flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
2: large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper
jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to
warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but
feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night [syn:
Xiphias gladius]
[also:
swordfishes (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Swordfish
Swordfish
\Sword"fish`\, n.
1. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A very large oceanic fish (
Xiphias gladius), the
only representative of the family
Xiphiid[ae]. It is
highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper
jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid,
swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without
distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The
adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet
or more long.
(b) The gar pike.
(c) The cutlass fish.
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2. (Astron.) A southern constellation. See
Dorado, 1.
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Swordfish sucker (Zo["o]l.), a remora (
Remora brachyptera
) which attaches itself to the swordfish.
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