English Explanatory Dictionary

keel-jawed needlefish

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

keel-jawed needlefish keel-jawed needlefishes

Etymology

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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