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Hairtail

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Hair´tail`    (~tāl`)
n.1.(Zool.) Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., Trichiurus lepturus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish.
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Noun1.Hairtailhairtail - long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel
cutlassfish, frost fish
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
family Trichiuridae, Trichiuridae - cutlassfishes
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