halfbeak

English

Halfbeak

Etymology

half +‎ beak

Noun

halfbeak (plural halfbeaks)

1. (zoology) Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoos or ballyhoos.

Derived terms

• acute halfbeak ()
• African halfbeak ()
• American halfbeak ()
• Asian pencil halfbeak ()
• Atlantic silverstripe halfbeak ()
• Australian neglected halfbeak ()
• balao halfbeak ()
• Balinese halfbeak ()
• ballyhoo halfbeak ()
• ballyhoo halfbeak ()
• Bangkok halfbeak ()
• barred halfbeak ()
• barred halfbeak ()
• Bermuda halfbeak ()
• bigwing halfbeak ()
• black-barred halfbeak ()
• Buffon's halfbeak ()
• California halfbeak ()
• Cape halfbeak ()
• Central American halfbeak ()
• choelo halfbeak ()
• common halfbeak ()
• common halfbeak ()
• common halfbeak ()
• common halfbeak ()
• common halfbeak ()
• Congaturi halfbeak ()
• coral reef halfbeak ()
• Dussumier's halfbeak ()

• viviparous halfbeak ()
• wrestling halfbeak ()
• yellowtip halfbeak ()
• yellowtip halfbeak ()
• yellowtip halfbeak ()

Translations

any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae

• Catalan: migbec (ca) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Tagalog: buging, siliw

References

• “halfbeak”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “balahoo”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• halfbeak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hemiramphidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Hemiramphidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons