GARFISH (garfishes)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: garfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does garfish mean? 

• GARFISH (noun)
  The noun GARFISH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GARFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

billfish; gar; garfish; garpike; Lepisosteus osseus

Hypernyms ("garfish" is a kind of...):

ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)

Holonyms ("garfish" is a member of...):

genus Lepisosteus; Lepisosteus (type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars)