noun
- Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- synonyms: gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus
- Giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw.
- Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters.
- synonyms: saury, Scomberesox saurus
- Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters.
- synonyms: needlefish, gar
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