slovo | definícia |
garfish (encz) | garfish,jehlice rohozubá Zdeněk Brož |
garfish (encz) | garfish,kostlín n: Zdeněk Brož |
Garfish (gcide) | Garfish \Gar"fish`\, n. [See Gar, n.] (Zool.)
(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[ae]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.
[1913 Webster] |
garfish (wn) | garfish
n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard
scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn:
gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, {Lepisosteus
osseus}] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
cigarfish (encz) | cigarfish, n: |
garfish (encz) | garfish,jehlice rohozubá Zdeněk Brožgarfish,kostlín n: Zdeněk Brož |
cigarfish (gcide) | Cigar fish \Cigar fish\, cigarfish \cigarfish\n. (Zool.)
a small fusiform fish (Decapterus punctatus), allied to the
mackerel, found in the West Atlantic and on the coast of the
Gulf of Mexico.
Syn: round scad, quiaquia, Decapterus punctatus.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] |
cigarfish (wn) | cigarfish
n 1: small fusiform fish of western Atlantic [syn: round scad,
cigarfish, quiaquia, Decapterus punctatus] |
garfish (wn) | garfish
n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard
scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn:
gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, {Lepisosteus
osseus}] |
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