billfish

billfish is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A name applied to several distinct fishes. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A name applied to several distinct fishes
2. noun. The garfish (Tylosurus, / Belone, longirostris) and allied species.
3. noun. The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus).
4. noun. The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
5. noun. The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).
6. noun. elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters

   Synonyms: gar, needlefish

7. noun. slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters

   Synonyms: saury

8. noun. giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw
9. noun. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth

   Synonyms: gar, garfish, garpike

Synonyms

gar, needlefish, saury, garfish, garpike

Common word forms

billfishes

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