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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]spearfish (plural spearfishes or spearfish)
- Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.
- Any striped marlin (Kajikia audax)
- Any quillback (Carpioides cyprinus
Derived terms
[edit]- Atlantic longbill spearfish (Tetrapturus pfluegeri)
- Japanese spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris)
- longbill spearfish (Tetrapturus pfluegeri)
- Mediterranean shortbill spearfish (Tetrapturus belone)
- Mediterranean spearfish (Tetrapturus belone)
- roundscale spearfish (Tetrapturus georgii)
- shortbill spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris)
- slender spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris)
- spearfish remora (Remora brachyptera)
- spearfishsucker (Remora brachyptera)
Translations
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Verb
[edit]spearfish (third-person singular simple present spearfishes, present participle spearfishing, simple past and past participle spearfished)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “spearfish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “spearfish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Tetrapturus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tetrapturus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Tetrapturus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons