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Meanings of billfish in English

Portuguese
gar
Catalan
lepisosteïforme
Spanish
belonidae
Wikidata

Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.

gar

Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters.

Synonyms
Examples for "saury"
Examples for "saury"
1
Background: Pacific saury is a common dietary component in East Asia.
Pubmed
2
So they brought him rare sand-suckers, and blue-striped wrasse, and saury pike, and gigantic cuttle-fish, four feet long, to his heart's content.
Biographies of Working Men
3
In our previous study, consumption of saury oil for 4 to 6 wk improved insulin sensitivity and the plasma lipid profile in mice.
Pubmed
Usage of billfish in English
1
There were migrating schools of billfish at times, some with sails, some brightly colored, all sleek and swift.
Ilse Witch
2
I suppose the book told you that a billfish of any kind always stuns his bait before he takes it in his mouth.
All the way
Translations for billfish
Billfish through the time