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Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth
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billfish
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. Sauries . [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.) A slender marine fish ( Scomberesox saurus ) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish , gowdnook , gawnook , skipper , skipjack , skopster , lizard fish ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth [syn: gar , garfish , garpike , Lepisosteus osseus ] giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw slender long-beaked ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The largest billfish, the Atlantic blue marlin , weighs up to 820 kg (1800 lb) and has been classified as a vulnerable species . The term billfish refers to a group of predatory fish characterised by prominent bills , or rostra , and by their large size; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several fish, of the family ''(taxlink Istiophoridae family noshow=1)'', that have an elongated jaw
Usage examples of billfish.
I hate to break this to you first-tour officers but against the Russians, an SPL is a hell of a lot different than the exercise we did against Billfish in the Med.
And unlike our exercise with the Billfish, the Russian is not under orders to be nice and control his course and speed for us.
The USS Billfish cruised slowly northeast at four knots, bare steerage way, at a depth of 658 feet.
USS billfish Commander Harrison Toth IV stepped up to the periscope stand of the USS billfish, shouldering aside the heavy curtain surrounding the periscope stand that was used to screen out the glow from the control-room instruments when the room was rigged for black.
USS billfish As billfish levelled out at 546 feet the broadband sonar trace on the video repeater winked out.
USS billfish The eerie, detached feeling left Commander Toth abruptly.
The Billfish had blown the AKULA out of the water, but not before it had launched a cruise missile at the coast of the United States of America.
BIGMOUTH antenna of the USS Billfish came out of the sail and transmitted the remarkable, harrowing message.
They were out there every day, setting thirty-mile-long nets to intercept the migrators, and they were getting everything: tuna and billfish, mackerel and wahoos, sharks and bonitos and jacks and porpoises.
Chubby withered me with a glance that told me clearly that he had been pulling the steel into billfish when I was still a gutter kid in a London slum.
Chubby watched anxiously, and I wondered once again how he had managed all these years to fool her on the billfish bonus.
EZ-Boy, and then he half stood, and lifted her, held her suspended above the floor like a billfish on the deck of a big-game boat.
As Lieutenant Sullivan opened the hatch, the XO of the USS Billfish called out to Mac.
The intercom activated, and they were informed that the Billfish was standing by to dive.
Still anchored piggyback-style on the deck of the Billfish, the DSRV slid beneath the surface of the sea.