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Marlin's cousin
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sailfish
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Wikipedia
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Sailfish are a genus Istiophorus of billfish living in warmer sections of all the oceans of the world. They are predominantly blue to gray in colour and have a characteristic erectile dorsal fin known as a sail , which often stretches the entire length ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A fish of the genus (taxlink Istiophorus genus noshow=1), having a characteristic sail-like fin on its back.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quillback \Quill"back`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American fresh-water fish ( Ictiobus cyprinus syn. Carpiodes cyprinus ); -- called also carp sucker , sailfish , spearfish , and skimback .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a saltwater fish with lean flesh large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long sail-like dorsal fin [also: sailfishes (pl)]
Usage examples of sailfish.
They excited my curiosity to such extent that I got out photographs of yellow-fin tuna, broadbill swordfish, Marlin swordfish, and sailfish.
Any moment I might raise an enormous black Marlin or a great sailfish or mako, or even a broadbill, not to think of some new species of fish.
Huge white sharks snapped and gored the smaller tiger and mako sharks, while the barracuda cut sailfish and cobia and tarpon into bloody gobbets of meat.
Zargoza, looking at a sailfish, king tarpon and hammerhead shark hanging in the middle of the room, almost completely dry.
Every arched wall was festooned with fishing nets, buoys, giant mounted marlin and sailfish, conch shells, shark jaws, and endless strings of Christmas lights.
Ruffino Marino, who lives in a million-dollar condo at Sailfish Lagoon, is a respected investment adviser.
ON THURSDAY morning at six-thirty I was making long slow lazy eights way out in the bay outside the sunlit structures of Sailfish Lagoon.
He stuffed and mounted and varnished and mothproofed supposedly great moments, all of which turn out to be depressing dust-catchers, like a moosehead bought at a country auction or a sailfish on the wall of a dentist's waiting room.