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billfish

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Meaning

  1. noun Any of several fish, of the families Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae, that have an elongated jaw.
  2. noun Other fish with elongated jaws: gars (Lepisosteidae spp.) sauries (Scomberesocidae spp.) silver gar (Strongylura maritima, in family Belonidae) northern pipefish (Syngnathus fuscus, in family Syngnathidae)
  3. noun gars (Lepisosteidae spp.)
  4. noun sauries (Scomberesocidae spp.)
  5. noun silver gar (Strongylura maritima, in family Belonidae)
  6. noun northern pipefish (Syngnathus fuscus, in family Syngnathidae)

Similar words

garfish garpike saury needlefish gar lepisosteus osseus scomberesox saurus bandfish jawfish batfish

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Word family

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