| NOUN | animal | gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus | primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth |
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| animal | gar, needlefish, billfish | elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws |
| Sounds | gaa'r | |
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| Rhymes | Adar ... Zanzibar: 81 rhymes with aar... | |
| Meaning | Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth. | |
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| Synonyms | garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus | |
| Member of | Lepisosteus, genus Lepisosteus | type genus of the Lepisosteidae |
| Broader | ganoid, ganoid fish | Primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering |
| Spanish | garpike, lepisosteiformes | |
| Catalan | agulla, garpike, lepisosteïforme | |
| Meaning | elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters. | |
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| Synonyms | needlefish, billfish | |
| Member of | Belonidae, family Belonidae | ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars |
| Narrower | timucu | Found in warm waters of western Atlantic |
| Broader | teleost fish, teleost, teleostan | A bony fish of the subclass Teleostei |
| Spanish | agujón, belonidae | |
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