cutlassfish, frost fish, hairtail
(noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hairtail (plural hairtails)
Any of a number of species of marine fishes of the family Trichiuridae, long, band-like, with a slender, pointed tail.
• (fish in family Trichiuridae): bladefish.
Source: Wiktionary
Hair"tail`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., T. lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
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