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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



... furnished with well-assorted hooks baited with cotton, dough, and cheese well mixed together, and stretched in eddy-water when the river is muddy, will give fine reward in carp, white perch, catfish, turtles, garfish, and sweet revenge on the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various



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



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