hairtail

hair·tail

H5018850 (hâr′tāl′)n. Any of various cutlassfishes having a long whiplike tail.

hairtail

(ˈhɛəˌteɪl) n (Animals) any marine spiny-finned fish of the family Trichiuridae, most common in warm seas, having a long whiplike scaleless body and long sharp teeth. Usual US name: cutlass fish

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hairtail - long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerelcutlassfish, frost fishpercoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformesfamily Trichiuridae, Trichiuridae - cutlassfishes