garfish

garfish is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.
2. noun. One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbaeus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.
3. noun. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth

   Synonyms: billfish, gar, garpike

Synonyms

billfish, gar, garpike

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in garfish:

ragfish

Common word forms

garfishes

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