Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large marine food and game fish (Xiphias gladius) having a long swordlike extension of the upper jaw.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common name of various fishes.
- noun [capitalized] In astronomy, a southern constellation, Dorado.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A very large oceanic fish (
Xiphias gladius ), the only representative of the familyXiphiidæ . It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long. - noun The gar pike.
- noun The cutlass fish.
- noun (Astron.) A southern constellation. See
Dorado , 1. - noun (Zoöl.) a remora (
Remora brachyptera ) which attaches itself to the swordfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill,
Xiphias gladius . - verb To
fish for swordfish.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
- noun flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
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Examples
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I would love to learn to big game fishTo catch a swordfish is my wishThe knowledge I findI would pass to the little boy of mineSo that we both be memory rich
Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest John Merwin 2008
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But the swordfish is the only one found in the seas, Making his home off the Florida Keys.
Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest John Merwin 2008
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Seems chasing the swordfish is the right thing to do.
Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest John Merwin 2008
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We had been watching this creature for three days or so, reeling in swordfish heads.
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We had been watching this creature for three days or so, reeling in swordfish heads.
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You SHOULD know that swordfish is one of the fish you SHOULD institute a self-imposed boycott.
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Tell me when your swordfish is swimming upon the Grand Banks and until the show somw data from the plehtora of fisheries data that shows but a single incidence of this sort of documented movement by a single individual and you will become a legend.
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In summary, we report that the allele distribution of the ldh-A gene in Pacific swordfish is homogeneous among temporal samples within-regions but that significant differences exist among pooled regional samples from the NCPO (Hawaii-multiple years), the north-eastern Pacific Ocean (NEPO: Mexico and Ecuador-multiple years), the south-eastern Pacific Ocean (SEPO: off Chile), and the SWP O (Australia).
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Tell me when your swordfish is swimming upon the Grand Banks and until the show somw data from the plehtora of fisheries data that shows but a single incidence of this sort of documented movement by a single individual and you will become a legend.
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Except, of course, that the swordfish is not in the list of endangered species.
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chained_bear commented on the word swordfish
"Grand Banks swordfish spawn in the Caribbean and then edge northward during the summer months, heading for the cold, protein-rich waters off Newfoundland."
Additional info on menhaden.
"Although all manner of fish feed on larval swordfish, only mako, sperm whale, and killer whale attack them when they're fully grown. Mature swordfish are considered to be one of the most dangerous game fish in the world and have been known to fight nonstop for three or four hours. They have sunk small boats in their struggles."
—Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm, 1997 (NY: HarperCollins, 1999), 51
August 17, 2009