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from The Century Dictionary.
- A subfamily of synentognathous fishes, of the family Scomberesocidæ (or Exocætidæ), typified by the genus Hemirhamphus; the halfbills: so called from the shortness of the upper jaw in comparison with the great length of the spear-like under jaw.
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