billfish

Noun

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

• slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters

• giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  needlefish , gar , saury , Scomberesox saurus , garfish , garpike , Lepisosteus osseus