NEEDLEFISH (needlefishes)

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Irregular inflected form: needlefishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does needlefish mean? 

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

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

2. fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates

  Familiarity information: NEEDLEFISH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEEDLEFISH (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("needlefish" is a kind of...):

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

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

timucu (found in warm waters of western Atlantic)

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

needlefish; pipefish

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

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

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

dwarf pipefish; Syngnathus hildebrandi (small (4 inches) fish found off the Florida Gulf Coast)

Cosmocampus profundus; deepwater pipefish (a fish 8 inches long; found from eastern Florida to western Caribbean)

sea horse; seahorse (small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position)

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

family Syngnathidae; Syngnathidae (pipefishes)