swordfish

Noun
Synonyms: Xiphias gladius

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
  2. large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at nightSynonyms: Xiphias gladius
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Swordfish \Sword"fish`\, n.

1.(Zool.) (a) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long. (b) The gar pike. (c) The cutlass fish. [1913 Webster]

2.(Astron.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. [1913 Webster]

Swordfish sucker (Zool.), a remora (Remora brachyptera) which attaches itself to the swordfish. [1913 Webster]

cutlass fish \cutlass fish\, cutlassfish \cutlassfish\n.

1.(Zool.) a peculiar, long, thin, marine fish (Trichiurus lepturus) of the southern United States and West Indies, having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp daggerlike teeth; -- called also frostfish, saber fish, silver eel, and, improperly, swordfish; also, several related members of the genus Trichiurus. It is closely related to snake mackerel.

Syn: frost fish, frostfish, hairtail. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

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