cutlassfish

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun cutlassfish has 1 sense

cutlassfish(n = noun.animal) frost fish, hairtail - long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel; Array

is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

is a member of family trichiuridae, trichiuridae

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cutlassfish, n.

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. [1913 Webster]

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