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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A needlefish (Belone belone) of marine and brackish waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The common garfish, Belone vulgaris.
  • noun A ganoid garfish; any fish of the family Lepidosteidæ; a gar. Also called bony pike. See cut under gar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Zoöl.) See under gar.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun gar; garfish

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth

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