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Garfish   Listen
noun
Garfish  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.
(b)
One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbaeus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.






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"Garfish" Quotes from Famous Books



... great store, of a yard long and for sweetness and fatness a reasonable food fish; he is only full of small bones, like our barbels in England. There is the garfish, some of which are a yard long, small and round like an eel and as big as a mare's leg, having a long snout full ...
— The Bounty of the Chesapeake - Fishing in Colonial Virginia • James Wharton



Words linked to "Garfish" :   billfish, garpike, genus Lepisosteus, ganoid fish, gar, Lepisosteus osseus, Lepisosteus



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