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Swordfish   /sˈɔrdfˌɪʃ/   Listen
Swordfish

noun
1.
Flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks.
2.
Large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night.  Synonym: Xiphias gladius.






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"Swordfish" Quotes from Famous Books



... wonderful self-possession in calmly resigning himself to a fate that thrust him from an office in which he had tyrannised over five hundred mortals, many of whom hated and loathed him, passed all belief; his intrepidity, I say, in now fearlessly gliding among them, like a disarmed swordfish among ferocious white-sharks; this, surely, bespoke no ordinary man. While in office, even, his life had often been secretly attempted by the seamen whom he had brought to the gangway. Of dark nights ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville



Words linked to "Swordfish" :   genus Xiphias, Xiphias, scombroid, saltwater fish, scombroid fish



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