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billfish

noun

1. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth

• Syn: ↑gar, ↑garfish, ↑garpike, ↑Lepisosteus osseus

• Hypernyms: ↑ganoid, ↑ganoid fish

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lepisosteus, ↑genus Lepisosteus

2. giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw

• Hypernyms: ↑scombroid, ↑scombroid fish

• Hyponyms: ↑marlin, ↑spearfish

• Member Holonyms: ↑Istiophoridae, ↑family Istiophoridae

3. slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters

• Syn: ↑saury, ↑Scomberesox saurus

• Hypernyms: ↑teleost fish, ↑teleost, ↑teleostan

• Member Holonyms: ↑Scomberesox, ↑genus Scomberesox, ↑Scombresox, ↑genus Scombresox

4. elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters

• Syn: ↑needlefish, ↑gar

• Hypernyms: ↑teleost fish, ↑teleost, ↑teleostan

• Hyponyms: ↑timucu

• Member Holonyms: ↑Belonidae, ↑family Belonidae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.