barracuda

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Trevally, barracuda, and needlefish are some of the tasties you'd be aiming for but virtually anything fished in the sea here can be eaten.

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  1. noun Any of various fierce, mostly tropical marine fishes of the genus Sphyraena that resemble pike, have a projecting lower jaw with fanglike teeth, and include some edible species.

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  • Smaller T-cells pursued like barracuda, chewing apart healthy tissue to deprive TB of breeding places. —  FSF - April2006
  • Fools will be punished Yes, Empress Llawan clicked for her barracuda, and they obediently fell in alongside her as she swam for her throne room. —  SCOTT McGOUGH
  • Somewhere out there swam herds of buffalo with coyotes worrying them like barracuda, and Red Indians rode their painted ponies along the currents of the wind. —  Aeon One
  • We've been building all season to Adele's big moment, but at best, it was a tepid retread of too many other blackmail scenes from too many mediocre boardroom-barracuda scenes in too many bad movies. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • We also saw a barracuda, and sting ray, an eagle ray, and a nurse shark! —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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  1. American Spanish, from Spanish dialectal barraco, overlapping tooth.
 

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