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/sˈɔrdfˌɪʃ/ Listen

Swordfish

noun

Flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks.

Large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night. Synonym: Xiphias gladius.

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"Swordfish" Quotes from Famous Books

... which had come from the famous press of Nuremberg. Then he added these mysterious words: "Alas! alas! small things come at the end of great things; a tooth triumphs over a mass. The Nile rat kills the crocodile, the swordfish kills the whale, the book will kill ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

... thirty-six, so you can figure it out for yourself. Of course she gets her husband wrong at that, as women so often do. Alonzo has probably the last pair of side whiskers outside of a steel engraving and stands five feet two, weighing a hundred and twenty-six pounds at the ring side, but he's game as a swordfish, and as for being romantic in the true sense of the word—well, no one that ever heard him sell a lot in Price's Addition—three miles and a half up on the mesa, with only the smoke of the canning factory to tell a body they was still near the busy haunts of men, that and ...

— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

Words linked to "Swordfish" : scombroid, saltwater fish, scombroid fish, genus Xiphias, Xiphias