billfish

Meanings

Plural: billfish, billfishes

Noun

• primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
• giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw
• slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters
• elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
• Any of several fish, of the families Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae, that have an elongated jaw.
• Other fish with elongated jaws:
• gars (Lepisosteidae spp.)
• Other fish with elongated jaws:
• sauries (Scomberesocidae spp.)
• Other fish with elongated jaws:
• silver gar (Strongylura maritima, in family Belonidae)
• Other fish with elongated jaws:
• northern pipefish (Syngnathus fuscus, in family Syngnathidae)

Synonyms

gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus, needlefish, saury, Scomberesox saurus