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Any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth
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barracuda
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Barracuda is a fictional character , a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character made his first appearance in The Punisher Vol. 7, #31 (May 2006), and was created by Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov .
Wiktionary
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n. 1 Any large marine fish of the genus (taxlink Sphyraena genus noshow=1) that have elongated bodies, a projecting lower jaw, displaying prominent fang-shaped teeth, and are aggressive predators. 2 (context figuratively English) An unethically predatory ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Barracuda \Bar`ra*cu"da\, Barracouta \Bar`ra*cou"ta\,, n. [Native name.] (Zo["o]l.) Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr[ae]na and family Sphyr[ae]nid[ae] . The great barracuda ( Sphyr[ae]na ...
WordNet
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n. any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth
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The Russians, as well as everyone else in the world, knew that the Barracuda had gone down and that the Bluefin was the only other American sub fitted out with blisters.
Edwards had designed the special instrumentation for the Barracuda and the Bluefin that monitored the thermal variations in the water surrounding the submarine, giving the skipper a constant readout of temperature differentials.
Bluefin and the Barracuda, and guaranteed that the Navy would never again sustain a loss like it did before the Scorpion, which had gone down several years off the Azores.
The Barracuda had gone down in more than a thousand meters of water with all hands lost.
I was asked to cite some of my published papers and I explained the kind of instrumentation I had designed for the Barracuda and the Bluefin.
And who did that first cousin happen to have been- the Exec aboard the Barracuda, Commander Tad Haywood.
The hydrothermal instrumentation in the two blisters on the sail keep us informed of the temperature differentials between the currents, and by sailing the Barracuda directly in the interface zone we are effectively shielded from detection.
Except for those few days in Rio, I have spent the past three months entirely aboard the Barracuda, and from time to time, I have thought about my life, the events that, when added together, have inexorably moved me to where I am now.
The officers on the Barracuda know the worth of their cause and their contribution to it.
He could not even begin to guess why his son had allowed the Barracuda to be caught running on the surface.
If he should want to investigate how the other officers aboard the Barracuda were chosen .
Between them, they had made it look to the press as if Edwards had personally sunk the Barracuda, either because he had designed faulty equipment or from more sinister motives.
I am allowing my emotions to outrun my reason, it is only because my son was and still is the skipper of the Barracuda .
It could also be one of theirs modified to look like the Barracuda, Richard answered.
Russians pick the design of the Barracuda to duplicate- and- then take so much trouble hushing it up?