noun
1. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
• Syn: ↑gar, ↑garfish, ↑garpike, ↑Lepisosteus osseus
• Hypernyms: ↑ganoid, ↑ganoid fish
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lepisosteus, ↑genus Lepisosteus
2. giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw
• Hypernyms: ↑scombroid, ↑scombroid fish
• Member Holonyms: ↑Istiophoridae, ↑family Istiophoridae
3. slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters
• Syn: ↑saury, ↑Scomberesox saurus
• Hypernyms: ↑teleost fish, ↑teleost, ↑teleostan
• Member Holonyms: ↑Scomberesox, ↑genus Scomberesox, ↑Scombresox, ↑genus Scombresox
4. elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
• Syn: ↑needlefish, ↑gar
• Hypernyms: ↑teleost fish, ↑teleost, ↑teleostan
• Hyponyms: ↑timucu
• Member Holonyms: ↑Belonidae, ↑family Belonidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.