garfish

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  • n garfish primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
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• Interesting fact: The garfish has green bones
• • n Garfish (Zoöl) A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar gerrick greenback greenbone gorebill hornfish longnose mackerel guide sea needle, and sea pike.
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• • n garfish A fish with a long snout or beak resulting from a spear-like prolongation of the jaws; a bill-fish; a gar. Specifically — A physoclistous synentognathous fish of the family Belonidæ; any belonid. The name was originally used for the common European Belone belone, or B. vulgaris, also called bill-fish, needle-fish, sea-needle, longnose, horn-fish, greenbone, gar, garpike, garpipe, etc. Some related American fishes belong to the genus Tylosurus, as T. longirostris, the silver gar or garfish.
  • n garfish In Australasia, Tylosurus ferox, called in Sydney ‘long Tom’; Hemiramphus intermedius;, a river-fish, H. regularis, of the family Hemiramphidæ.
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• • Garfish . See Gar (1).
  • n Garfish gär′fish a long slender fish of the pike family, with a pointed head.
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