Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various marine fishes of the family Belonidae, having slender bodies and long thin jaws with sharp teeth.
- noun Any of various other slender fishes, such as a pipefish or a sand lance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Tylosuridæ, widely distributed.
- noun One of several different garfishes or bill-fishes; any belonid: so called from the sharp, slender snout. See
Belonidæ and gar. - noun A pipe-fish, Syngnathus acus, or other species of the genus or family Syngnathidæ. See
Syngnathus . - noun The agonoid fish Aspidophoroides monopterygius.
- noun Same as
needle-shell .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The European great pipefish (
Siphostoma acus orSyngnathus acus ); -- called alsoearl , andtanglefish . - noun The garfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Slender
fish , in the family Belonidae, usually found inshallow marine habitats.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
- noun elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
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Examples
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Weight: 1 ¼ oz. Details: No matter which bait is prevalent, from herring to needlefish to sardines, this lure matches it perfectly.
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Maybe a good fly for needlefish would be some poly rope tied to a hook shank broken off at the bend.
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Freshwater gar (various species), especially spotted and longnose gar resemble needlefish in body type/form.
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Whoa, that is the biggest needlefish I've ever seen, and it sure is pretty!
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Among the 15th- to 16th-century blue-and-white stoneware, a dish features a sprightly deer scampering along a river and a jar teems with needlefish darting in and out of seaweed.
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Maybe a good fly for needlefish would be some poly rope tied to a hook shank broken off at the bend.
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I have a love hate relationship with needlefish on a fly.
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Freshwater gar (various species), especially spotted and longnose gar resemble needlefish in body type/form.
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Whoa, that is the biggest needlefish I've ever seen, and it sure is pretty!
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The needlefish were keeping pace, still congregating around his big toe.
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