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HAIRTAIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hairtail mean?
• HAIRTAIL (noun)
The noun HAIRTAIL has 1 sense:
1. long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel
Familiarity information: HAIRTAIL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
cutlassfish; frost fish; hairtail
Hypernyms ("hairtail" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Holonyms ("hairtail" is a member of...):
family Trichiuridae; Trichiuridae (cutlassfishes)
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