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hairtail [ˈhɛəˌteɪl]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any marine spiny-finned fish of the family Trichiuridae, most common in warm seas, having a long whiplike scaleless body and long sharp teeth Usual US name cutlass fish
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Noun1.hairtail - long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teethhairtail - 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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