Gar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several ganoid fishes of the family Lepisosteidae of fresh and brackish waters of North and Central America, having long narrow jaws, an elongated body, and a long snout.
  • n. A similar or related fish, such as the needlefish. Also called garfish, garpike.
  • v. Scots To cause or compel.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several fish, of the family Lepisosteidae, that have long, narrow jaws; garfish
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See garfish.
  • n. The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under alligator), and Gar pike.
  • v. To cause; to make.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A spear: an element in certain proper names of Anglo-Saxon origin, as Edgar (AS. Eádgār, happy or fortunate spear), Ethelgar (AS. Aethelgār, noble spear), etc.
  • n. [Abbr. of garfish.] A garfish; one of several different fishes, belonging to different orders, which have a long sharp snout or beak, likened to a spear; a bill-fish: as, the common gar, Belone vulgaris; especially, in the United States, a ganoid fish of the family Lepidosteidœ; a garpike.
  • To cause; make; force; compel.
  • n. Mud; ooze; dirt; slime.
  • n. Vegetable slime found adhering to ships' bottoms.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
  • n. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
  • Equivalent
    garpike   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ganoid fish    ganoid   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    garfish    alligator   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cause    make   
    Rhyme
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    Adar    Aer    Afar    Ajar    Ar    Azar    Babar    Bar    Barr    Belvoir   
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