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Sailfish

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Noun

1. sailfish

a saltwater fish with lean flesh

2. sailfish

large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sailfish

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noun plural -fish or -fishes
1. 
any of several large scombroid game fishes of the genus Istiophorus, such as I. albicans (Atlantic sailfish), of warm and tropical seas: family Istiophoridae. They have an elongated upper jaw and a long sail-like dorsal fin
2.  another name for basking shark

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Sailfish

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nounWord forms: plural ˈsailˌfish or ˈsailˌfishes
any of a genus (Istiophorus, family Istiophoridae) of large, tropical marine billfishes with elongated scales, a sail-like dorsal fin, and a sword-shaped upper jaw

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sailfish

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n. pl. sailfish or sail·fish·es
Either of two large marine fishes, Istiophorus albicans of the Atlantic Ocean or I. platypterus of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, having a large saillike dorsal fin and an elongated, spearlike upper jaw.

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