billfish

bill·fish  (blfsh)

n. pl. billfish or bill·fish·es

1. Any of various fishes of the family Istiophoridae, such as a marlin or sailfish, having an elongated, swordlike or spearlike snout and upper jaw.

2. Any of various other fishes having long, pointed jaws.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	billfish - primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus ganoid, ganoid fish - primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering genus Lepisosteus, Lepisosteus - type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars
	2.	billfish - giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw scombroid, scombroid fish - important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters family Istiophoridae, Istiophoridae - sailfishes; spearfishes; marlins marlin - large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes spearfish - any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
	3.	billfish - slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters saury, Scomberesox saurus teleost, teleost fish, teleostan - a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei genus Scomberesox, genus Scombresox, Scomberesox, Scombresox - a genus of Scomberesocidae
	4.	billfish - elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters needlefish, gar teleost, teleost fish, teleostan - a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei Belonidae, family Belonidae - ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars timucu - found in warm waters of western Atlantic