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Billfish

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Noun

1. billfish, gar, garfish, garpike, lepisosteus osseus

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

2. billfish

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

3. billfish, saury, scomberesox saurus

slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters

4. billfish, gar, needlefish

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

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Billfish

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noun plural -fish or -fishes
US
any of various fishes having elongated jaws, esp any fish of the family Istiophoridae, such as the spearfish and marlin

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Billfish

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nounWord forms: plural ˈbillˌfish or ˈbillˌfishes
any of various fishes with long, narrow jaws that resemble a beak, as many gars or swordfish; esp., any of a family (Istiophoridae) of percoid fishes, as the marlin

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Billfish

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n. pl. billfish or bill·fish·es
1. Any of various marine fishes having an elongated spearlike or swordlike upper jaw, including the marlins, sailfishes, and spearfishes of the family Istiophoridae and the swordfish of the family Xiphiidae.
2. Any of various fishes having long, pointed jaws, such as the needlefishes.

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