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What (who) is Garfish - definition

SPECIES OF EDIBLE FISH, IN THE GENUS BELONE
Gar-fish; Sea Needle; Gar Pikes; Belone belone; Gar fish

Garfish         
·noun A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris);
- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.
II. Garfish ·noun One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbaeus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern;
- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.
garfish         
¦ noun (plural same or garfishes)
1. a long, slender marine fish with beak-like jaws containing sharp teeth. [Family Belonidae: several species.]
2. N. Amer. a similar freshwater fish. [Genus Lepisosteus.]
Origin
ME: appar. from OE gar 'spear' + fish1.
gar-fish         
n.
Greenbone, horn-fish, sea-needle, gar-pike, sea-pike, long-nose, gore-bill, sword-fish, mackerel-guide, snook (Esox belone or Belone vulgaris).

Wikipedia

Garfish

The garfish (Belone belone), also known as the garpike or sea needle, is a pelagic, oceanodromous needlefish found in brackish and marine waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Black, and Baltic Seas.

Examples of use of Garfish
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2. A fossilised garfish and turtle were among other fossils, minerals and gemstones up for auction. 65–million year old dinosaur nest found in China Reader comments (0) No comments have so far been submitted.
3. But this was just talk, we had heard about needle–nosed garfish leaping into the air and impaling a luckless fisherman but never a fatal stab from a stingray.