garfish

English

Garfish (Belone belone)

Etymology

From Middle English garfysche, equivalent to gar (“spear”) +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

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Noun

garfish (plural garfishes or garfish)

1. (especially UK, Ireland) Any fish of the needlefish family Belonidae, with a long narrow body and needle-shaped jaws, especially the European species Belone belone.

   Synonyms: needlefish, long-nose, sea needle

2. (especially US, Canada) Any North or Central American fish of the family Lepisosteidae.

   Synonyms: gar, garpike

Usage notes

• See usage notes at gar.

Alternative forms

• gar-fish

Translations

fish of family Belonidae

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can Assamese: কঁকিলা (kõkila), কঁকিলা মাছ (kõkila mas) Asturian: chínfanu (ast), aguya (ast) Basque: akula Bulgarian: зарган (bg) m (zargan) Catalan: agulla (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 長嘴硬鱗魚／长嘴硬鳞鱼 (cháng zuǐyìng línyú) Cornish: garek, garek m Finnish: nokkakala (fi) French: orphie (fr) f Galician: agulla (gl) f, chandarme (gl) m Georgian: ზღვისქარიყლაპიასებრნი (zɣviskariq̇laṗiasebrni) German: Hornhecht f Greek: ζαργάνα (el) f (zargána) Irish: corr uaine f, ronnach Spáinneach m, spéirlint fharraige f, spéirlint mhara f Japanese: ガーフィッシュ (ja) (gāfisshu) Maori: hangenge, takeke Norman: orfi m (Guernsey, Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: horngjel m Old English: hornfisċ m Polish: belona (pl) f Portuguese: peixe-agulha (pt) m Romanian: zărgan (ro) m, țipar-de-mare m, știucă-de-mare (ro) f Russian: сарга́н (ru) m (sargán) Spanish: aguja (es) f Tagalog: haba (tl), isang-haba Turkish: zargana (tr) Ukrainian: сарга́н f (sarhán)

fish of family Lepisosteidae

Finnish: luuhauki (fi) German: Knochenhecht m Russian: па́нцирник (ru) m (páncirnik), па́нцирная щу́ка f (páncirnaja ščúka)

Further reading

• garfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Belonidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lepisosteidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• ghafirs, ragfish