Garpike
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noun.
A needlefish
(Belone belone)
of marine and brackish waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
noun.
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The common garfish,
Belone vulgaris.
noun.
A ganoid garfish; any fish of the family
Lepidosteidæ;
a gar. Also called
bony pike
. See cut under
gar
.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
See under
gar
.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
gar
;
garfish
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun.
primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
Word Usage
"The ganoids of which the sturgeon and garpike are examples, with heavy plates or scales."
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
ganoid
ganoid fish
variant
gar