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swordfishes

n. (plural of swordfish English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: swordfish)

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swordfish
  1. n. flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks

  2. large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night [syn: Xiphias gladius]

  3. [also: swordfishes (pl)]

swordfishes

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Usage examples of "swordfishes".

Stephen, Adams, and to some extent West made a reasonable amount of noise at the far end of the table about swordfishes they had known, the different kinds of swordfish, the inveterate enmity between the sword-fish and the whale, instances not only of ships but even ships' boats being pierced, and the anguish of those sitting on the bottom, between the thwarts.