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garfish

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Noun
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gar=fish

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun garfish has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

garfishn. [See Gar, n.].
     A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

garfish, n. (pl. same)
1 any mainly marine fish of the family Belonidae, esp. Belone belone, having long beaklike jaws with sharp teeth. Also called NEEDLEFISH.
2 US any similar freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, with ganoid scales. Also called GAR or GARPIKE.
3 NZ & Austral. either of two marine fish of the genus Hemiramphus. Also called HALFBEAK.

Etymology
app. f. OE gar spear + fisc FISH(1)
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