Meaning

1 senses
  1. A large, yet long and thin needlefish of the species of genus Tylosurus, common gamefishes in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans.

Translations

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Origin

By surface analysis, keel + jawed + needlefish, from a small bony appendage to the lower j

By surface analysis, keel + jawed + needlefish, from a small bony appendage to the lower jaw in some specimens of some species of genus Tylosurus.

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Forms

plural: keel-jawed needlefishes

See also

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