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Meanings of needlefish in English

Portuguese
gar
Spanish
belonidae

Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters.

        gar
        Portuguese
        peixe-cachimbo
        Spanish
        pez pipa

        Fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates.

              peixe-cachimbo
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              Examples for "gar"
              Examples for "gar"
              1
              Most predatory fish are long and slim, like the alligator-gar and pickerel.
              Through the Brazilian Wilderness
              2
              A great gar plunged with a loud splash into the water hole.
              Heart of the West
              3
              Some fossil gar species are also placed within functional morphospace using this approach.
              Pubmed
              4
              I think about Julie climbing a 25-foot rock slab above an alligator gar.
              Climbing Magazine
              5
              You lookin' at hard time here, boy, that I can gar-an-tee.
              Warlord: an alex hawke novel
              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
              Usage of needlefish in English
              1
              A school of needlefish, bright as new nickels, flashed by.
              Stiltsville: a novel
              Translations for needlefish