The garfish, Belone vulgaris, so called from its long projecting beak.

The garfish or hornbeak.

A fish (Belone vulgaris) with a long spear-like snout, called also green-bone, horn-fish, sea-pike, etc. In America and Australia the name is given…

The garfish or hornbeak.

any of several fishes with greenish bones, spec. †(a) the garfish or garpike, Belone belone (obsolete); (b) the viviparous blenny, Zoarces viviparus…

The garfish or hornfish, Belone vulgaris, which has extremely long and slender tapering jaws.

the garfish, Belone vulgaris.

= horn-fish, n.

Any of various fishes with elongated bodies; spec. any fish of the family Belonidae, which comprises the garfishes and long-toms, characterized by…

the sea-pike.

the gar-fish, Belone vulgaris (cf. needlefish, n.).

= garfish, n.

The garfish.

Any of various fishes with greenish backs (or backbones); esp. †(a) the garfish or garpike, Belone belone (obsolete); †(b) the saithe or coalfish, P…

(Belone truncata) a small anadromous sea-fish of North America. Also called Sea-pike, Silver Gar-fish, etc.

A fish of the Pike or Esox family of the genus Belone, having long bill-like jaws; the gar-fish or gar-pike.

One of various fishes, as (a) a gar-fish, esp. the common gar-fish or gar-pike, Belone vulgaris; (b) any fish of the family Sphyrænidæ, esp. the…

A name applied to various fishes (tr. modern Latin saurus), esp. the skipper or bill-fish, Scomberesox saurus; also attributive as saury elops, saury…

= garfish, n.

A kind of gar-fish. Obsolete.

the garfish, Belone belone.

Any of several fishes with long snouts; esp. the garfish, Belone belone, of the north-east Atlantic. Now rare.

? = garfish, n. (Cf. gorebill, n.)

A name of the garfish. (Cf. gore-fish, n.)

= mackerel guide n.

Chiefly Australian. Any of several needlefishes or garfishes of the family Belonidae, esp. those of the genera Strongylura and Tylosurus.

(a) a species of fish belonging to the deep-sea family Nemichthyidæ; (b) the sea-pike or garfish, Belone vulgaris.