scabbard fish

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scabbard fish

Any of various marine fishes with a long narrow silvery body, especially a cutlass fish (Trichiurus lepturus) of the western Atlantic.

scabbard fish

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various marine spiny-finned fishes of the family Trichiuridae, esp of the genus Lepidopus, having a long whiplike scaleless body and long sharp teeth: most common in warm waters

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