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Belonidae

noun
1.
Ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars.  Synonym: family Belonidae.





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"Belonidae" Quotes from Famous Books



... In England the name is applied to any fish of the family Belonidae. The name was originally used for the common European Belone vulgaris. In Melbourne the Garfish is a true one, Belone ferox, Gunth., called in Sydney "Long Tom." In Sydney, Tasmania, and New Zealand it is Hemirhamphus intermedius, ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris


Words linked to "Belonidae" :   family Belonidae, billfish, needlefish, Synentognathi, gar, fish family, order Synentognathi


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