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billfish  noun (plural same or billfishes)A large, fast-swimming fish of open seas, with a streamlined body and a long pointed spear-like snout. It occurs on the surface in warmer waters and is a popular sporting fish.- Family Istiophoridae: three genera and several species, including the marlins, sailfish, and spearfish.
Leave the oceans' bluefin tunas and billfish and sea turtles alone, but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain - as he shovels redfish into the boiler....- Fish species like tunas, seerfishes, billfishes and mackerels fall in this category.
- The fastest-swimming fish are the billfish and the tunas.
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