noun
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: ↑swordfish
• Hypernyms: ↑scombroid, ↑scombroid fish
• Member Holonyms: ↑Xiphias, ↑genus Xiphias
• Part Meronyms: ↑swordfish
Useful english dictionary. 2012.