garfish : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: garfish	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for garfish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
garfish n primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth Synonym(s): gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Garfish \Gar"fish`\, n. [See {Gar}, n.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European marine fish ({Belone vulgaris}); -- called also {gar}, {gerrick}, {greenback}, {greenbone}, {gorebill}, {hornfish}, {longnose}, {mackerel guide}, {sea needle}, and {sea pike}. (b) One of several species of similar fishes of the genus {Tylosurus}, of which one species ({T. marinus}) is common on the Atlantic coast. {T. Caribb[91]us}, a very large species, and {T. crassus}, are more southern; -- called also {needlefish}. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.