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Definition of Garpikes
1. garpike [n] - See also: garpike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garpikes
Literary usage of Garpikes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"garpikes are voracious, devouring minnows, young fish, and other aquatic animals,
and where they occur in large numbers are very harmful to the fishing ..."
2. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"The young garpikes move very slowly, and seem to float quietly, save an exceedingly
rapid ... A number of fossil garpikes, referred by Cope to the genus ..."
3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1849)
"AGASSIZ, on the MONOGRAPH OF garpikes. He said, it would be recollected, ...
The only types living, which bear a particular resemblance, are the garpikes. ..."
4. Animal Forms: A Second Book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan, Harold Heath (1902)
"101) and garpikes—in which it is cartilaginous or partly bony. ... The garpikes
live in the larger lakes and rivers throughout the East and Mississippi ..."
5. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"garpikes are voracious, devouring minnows, young fish, and other aquatic animals,
and where they occur in large numbers are very harmful to the fishing ..."
6. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"The young garpikes move very slowly, and seem to float quietly, save an exceedingly
rapid ... A number of fossil garpikes, referred by Cope to the genus ..."
7. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1849)
"AGASSIZ, on the MONOGRAPH OF garpikes. He said, it would be recollected, ...
The only types living, which bear a particular resemblance, are the garpikes. ..."
8. Animal Forms: A Second Book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan, Harold Heath (1902)
"101) and garpikes—in which it is cartilaginous or partly bony. ... The garpikes
live in the larger lakes and rivers throughout the East and Mississippi ..."
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