Needlefish

Word NEEDLEFISH
Character 10
Hyphenation nee dle fish
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Definitions and meanings of "Needlefish"

What do we mean by needlefish?

Any of various marine fishes of the family Belonidae, having slender bodies and long thin jaws with sharp teeth. noun

Any of various other slender fishes, such as a pipefish or a sand lance. noun

A fish of the family Tylosuridæ, widely distributed. noun

One of several different garfishes or bill-fishes; any belonid: so called from the sharp, slender snout. See Belonidæ and gar. noun

A pipe-fish, Syngnathus acus, or other species of the genus or family Syngnathidæ. See Syngnathus. noun

The agonoid fish Aspidophoroides monopterygius. noun

Same as needle-shell. noun

The European great pipefish (Siphostoma acus or Syngnathus acus); -- called also earl, and tanglefish. noun

The garfish. noun

Slender fish, in the family Belonidae, usually found in shallow marine habitats. noun

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

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

Slender fish, in the family Belonidae, usually found in shallow marine habitats.

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The word "needlefish" in example sentences

Weight: 1 ¼ oz. Details: No matter which bait is prevalent, from herring to needlefish to sardines, this lure matches it perfectly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Freshwater gar (various species), especially spotted and longnose gar resemble needlefish in body type/form. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe a good fly for needlefish would be some poly rope tied to a hook shank broken off at the bend. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whoa, that is the biggest needlefish I've ever seen, and it sure is pretty! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among the 15th- to 16th-century blue-and-white stoneware, a dish features a sprightly deer scampering along a river and a jar teems with needlefish darting in and out of seaweed. ❋ Lee Adair Lawrence (2012)

I have a love hate relationship with needlefish on a fly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The needlefish were keeping pace, still congregating around his big toe. ❋ Lynn Kiele Bonasia (2008)

(In the past, he's also offered fish such as sayori, needlefish, and hamo, daggertooth conger pike, an eel-like summer-season thing so bony that no one could figure out how to eat it until the people of Kyoto devised a special technique called hone-giri, to which Takayama-san has added variations of his own.) ❋ Tosches, Nick (2007)

Swimmer nearly eviscerated by a crocodile needlefish in Hawaii ❋ Unknown (2005)

Nineteen-year-old Tonga "Papio" Loumoli was diving at night in Hawaii when a four-foot-long crocodile needlefish sliced him from groin to breastbone. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Reader comment: Rufus says: You probably get a lot of mail, however you got it a bit wrong about the needlefish. ❋ Unknown (2005)

If the Venice boardwalk is a human circus, as many observers have described it, then the long, keyhole-shaped pier that abuts it is an angling circus, a narrow strip of concrete where the exotic and unpredictable denizens of the Pacific Ocean-needlefish have been reeled up onto the pier; occasionally someone hooks a sea lion-meet the exotic and unpredictable anglers of Los Angeles. ❋ Jonathan Miles (2005)

Sayori needlefish: Tiny fillets stacked like lumber and topped with the shiso flowers again, pepper this time playing off salt. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Those are needlefish, she thought, and that is Xenia soft coral. ❋ Anthony Doerr (2002)

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