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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun gar has 2 senses

gar(n = noun.animal) billfish, garfish, garpike, lepisosteus osseus - primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth; Array

is a kind of ganoid, ganoid fish

is a member of genus lepisosteus, lepisosteus

gar(n = noun.animal) billfish, needlefish - elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters; Array

is a kind of teleost, teleost fish, teleostan

is a member of belonidae, family belonidae

has particulars: timucu

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gar, n. [Prob. AS. gār dart, spear, lance. The name is applied to the fish on account of its long and slender body and pointed head. Cf. Goad, Gore, v.].

Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish. [1913 Webster]

Gar pike, or Garpike (Zoöl.), a large, elongated ganoid fish of the genus Lepidosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical America.

gar, v. t. [Of Scand. origin. See Gear, n.].

To cause; to make. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

gar, n. = GARFISH 2.

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ROGET THESAURUS

gar

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.

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