Akademik

hairtail

noun

long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel

• Syn: ↑cutlassfish, ↑frost fish

• Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean

• Member Holonyms: ↑Trichiuridae, ↑family Trichiuridae

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Etymology: so called from the fact that the tail ends in a hairlike filament

: cutlass fish

Useful english dictionary. 2012.