billfishes

Variant of billfish

billfish definition

☆ bill·fish (bil′fis̸h′)

noun pl. billfish -·fish′, billfishes -·fish′es

any of various fishes with long, narrow jaws that resemble a beak, as many gars or swordfish; esp., any of a family (Istiophoridae) of percoid fishes, as the marlin

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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