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gar·fish  (gärfsh)

n. pl. garfish or gar·fish·es

See gar¹.

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[Middle English : gare, spear (from Old English gr) + fish, fish; see fish.]

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garfish [ˈgɑːˌfɪʃ]

n pl -fish, -fishes

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for garpike [1]

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an elongated European marine teleost fish, Belone belone, with long toothed jaws: related to the flying fishes

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various marine or estuarine fish with a long needle-like lower jaw

[Old English gār spear + fish]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

garfish - primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth billfish, gar, 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

Translations

garfish [ˈgɑːˌfɪʃ] N (garfish or garfishes (pl)) → aguja f