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Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth
Answer for the clue "Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth ", 8 letters:
hairtail
Alternative clues for the word hairtail
Word definitions for hairtail in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hairtail \Hair"tail`\ (-t[=a]l`), n. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus ; esp., Trichiurus lepturus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel [syn: cutlassfish , frost fish ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of a number of species of marine fishes of the family Trichiuridae, long, band-like, with a slender, pointed tail.
Usage examples of hairtail.
After depositing the hairtail on the counter, he set the lightly oiled wok on the gas burner to heat and started a pot of jasmine rice.
Before he took the hairtail from its package, he opened the kitchen window.
Then, holding the hairtail out straight with his left hand, he used the point of his razor-edged fingernail to make a slit in the skin all the way around the head, just behind the gill plate.