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GARFISH
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Irregular inflected form: garfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
Synonyms:
billfish; gar; garfish; garpike; Lepisosteus osseus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("garfish" is a kind of...):
ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)
Holonyms ("garfish" is a member of...):
genus Lepisosteus; Lepisosteus (type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars)
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