Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A needlefish (Belone belone) of marine and brackish waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common garfish, Belone vulgaris.
- noun A ganoid garfish; any fish of the family Lepidosteidæ; a gar. Also called
bony pike . See cut undergar .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) See under
gar .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
gar ;garfish
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
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Examples
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The ganoids of which the sturgeon and garpike are examples, with heavy plates or scales.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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The garpike as he saw it, with amplifications from the Indians as they had seen it, gave him the subject for a good fish story.
The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain Charles William Colby 1911
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