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Billfish
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What's The Definition Of Billfish?
[n] elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
[n] slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [n] giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw [n] primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth Synonyms | Synonyms for Billfish: gar | garfish | garpike | Lepisosteus osseus | needlefish | saury | Scomberesox saurus Related Terms | Find terms related to Billfish: See Also | Belonidae | family Belonidae | family Istiophoridae | ganoid | ganoid fish | genus Lepisosteus | genus Scomberesox | genus Scombresox | Istiophoridae | Lepisosteus | marlin | Scomberesox | Scombresox | scombroid | scombroid fish | spearfish | teleost | teleost fish | teleostan | timucu Billfish In Webster's Dictionary \Bill"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A name applied to several distinct fishes:
(a) The garfish ({Tylosurus, or Belone, longirostris}) and
allied species.
(b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast
({Scomberesox saurus}).
(c) The {Tetrapturus albidus}, a large oceanic species
related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
(d) The American fresh-water garpike ({Lepidosteus osseus}).
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