hairtail

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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun hairtail has 1 sense

hairtail(n = noun.animal) cutlassfish, frost fish - long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel;

is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

is a member of family trichiuridae, trichiuridae

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CIDE DICTIONARY

hairtail, n.

Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., Trichiurus lepturus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish. [1913 Webster]