GAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gar mean? 

• GAR (noun)
  The noun GAR has 2 senses:

1. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth

2. elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters

  Familiarity information: GAR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

billfish; gar; garfish; garpike; Lepisosteus osseus

Hypernyms ("gar" is a kind of...):

ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)

Holonyms ("gar" is a member of...):

genus Lepisosteus; Lepisosteus (type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

billfish; gar; needlefish

Hypernyms ("gar" is a kind of...):

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gar"):

timucu (found in warm waters of western Atlantic)

Holonyms ("gar" is a member of...):

Belonidae; family Belonidae (ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars)

 Context examples 

“No more of thy nut-brown, mon gar. We leave it behind us.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Ma foi!” cried the bowman, passing his fingers through his curls, “you were not far from the feather-bed then, mon gar. A little more and this good hostel would have a new window.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hola! mon petit. By my hilt! I thought there had been a camisade. What then, mon gar.?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Tarry a bit! tarry a bit, mon gar.!” quoth Aylward, and turning round the shield he showed a round clear hole in the wood at the back of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well said, mon gar.,” cried Aylward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Buvons, mon gar., for it is not every day that two old friends come together.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, mon gar., I loved her.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is like enough, mon gar., as things go.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On guard, mon gar.! I have not heard clink of steel this month or more.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hola, mon gar.,” said Aylward, seating himself upon a boulder by his side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)