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garpike
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun garpike has 1 sense
- garpike(n = noun.animal) billfish, gar, garfish, 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
OXFORD DICTIONARY
garpike, n. a gar or garfish (see GARFISH 2).
Etymology
OE gar spear + PIKE(1)
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