swordfish : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: swordfish	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for swordfish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swordfish n flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks 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 Synonym(s): swordfish, Xiphias gladius
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swordfish \Sword"fish`\, n. 1. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A very large oceanic fish ({Xiphias gladius}), the only representative of the family {Xiphiid[91]}. 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. (b) The gar pike. (c) The cutlass fish. 2. (Astron.) A southern constellation. See {Dorado}, 1. {Swordfish sucker} (Zo[94]l.), a remora ({Remora brachyptera}) which attaches itself to the swordfish.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cutlass \Cut"lass\ (k[ucr]t"l[ait]s), n.; pl. {Cutlasses} (-[ecr]z). [F. coutelas (cf. It. coltellaccio), augm. fr. L. cultellus a small knife, dim. of culter knife. See {Colter}, and cf. {Curtal ax}.] A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See {Curtal ax}. {Cutlass fish}, (Zo[94]l.), a peculiar, long, thin, marine fish ({Trichiurus lepturus}) of the southern United States and West Indies; -- called also {saber fish}, {silver eel}, and, improperly, {swordfish}.