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Definition of Garfishes
1. garfish [n] - See also: garfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garfishes
Literary usage of Garfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The garfishes: Belonidae.—-There are two principal groups or families among ...
The garfishes swim near the surface of the water and often move with great ..."
2. In Malay Forests by William George Maxwell (1907)
""'By the grace of Allah,' said Nabi Sleman, 'a stream is not without its bends
and turnings. Send for the Prawns, the Perches, and the garfishes. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1882)
"... he says —have affinities with the garfishes and more remotely with the pikes,
and constitute the genus ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The bowfin attains a length of about 2 feet and a weight of 12 pounds, and, like
its allies, the garfishes, is covered with hard, round scales; ..."
5. Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Richard Ellsworth Call (1899)
"They prey on all the other fishes except the garfishes, &c. They are easily taken
with the hook, and afford a very good food, having a delicate flesh. ..."
6. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The garfishes: Belonidae.—-There are two principal groups or families among ...
The garfishes swim near the surface of the water and often move with great ..."
7. In Malay Forests by William George Maxwell (1907)
""'By the grace of Allah,' said Nabi Sleman, 'a stream is not without its bends
and turnings. Send for the Prawns, the Perches, and the garfishes. ..."
8. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1882)
"... he says —have affinities with the garfishes and more remotely with the pikes,
and constitute the genus ..."
9. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The bowfin attains a length of about 2 feet and a weight of 12 pounds, and, like
its allies, the garfishes, is covered with hard, round scales; ..."
10. Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Richard Ellsworth Call (1899)
"They prey on all the other fishes except the garfishes, &c. They are easily taken
with the hook, and afford a very good food, having a delicate flesh. ..."
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