'Billfish' definitions:
Definition of 'billfish'
From: WordNet
noun
Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn: gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus]
noun
Giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw
noun
Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn: saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus]
noun
Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters [syn: needlefish, gar, billfish]
Definition of 'Billfish'
From: GCIDE
- Billfish \Bill"fish`\ (b[i^]l"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zool.) A name applied to several distinct fishes: (a) The garfish (Tylosurus longirostris, or {Belone longirostris}) and allied species. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'billfish'
From: GCIDE
- Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. Sauries. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.) 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, and Egypt herring. [1913 Webster]