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garfish: see gar gar, member of the family Lepisosteidae, freshwater fishes found in the warmer rivers and lakes of the S United States, Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies. Gars are highly predacious and destroy many useful fish. ..... Click the link for more information. ; needlefish needlefish, common name for members of the family Belonidae, which comprises 50 species of elongated, surface-swimming predaceous fish abundant in warm seas. ..... Click the link for more information. . garfish 1. another name for garpike 2. an elongated European marine teleost fish, Belone belone, with long toothed jaws: related to the flying fishes 3. any of various marine or estuarine fish with a long needle-like lower jaw How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Boris Karloff's deep, rich voice swoops and skims over such deliciously sequenced syllables as "the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. The cottages have windows in the floors that reveal a rich parade of marine life: bonefish, jacks, garfish and whip morays. |
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