| blue marlin | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. blue marlin, makaira nigricans | largest marlin; may reach 2000 pounds; found worldwide in warm seas. |
| ~ marlin | large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes. |
| marlin | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. marlin | large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes. |
| ~ billfish | giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw. |
| ~ genus makaira, makaira | marlins. |
| ~ blue marlin, makaira nigricans | largest marlin; may reach 2000 pounds; found worldwide in warm seas. |
| ~ black marlin, makaira marlina, makaira mazara | large game fish in the Pacific Ocean; may reach 1000 pounds. |
| ~ makaira mitsukurii, striped marlin | Pacific food and game fish marked with dark blue vertical stripes. |
| ~ makaira albida, white marlin | small marlin (to 180 pounds) of western Atlantic. |
| sailfish | | |
| n. (food) | 1. sailfish | a saltwater fish with lean flesh. |
| ~ saltwater fish | flesh of fish from the sea used as food. |
| n. (animal) | 2. sailfish | large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail. |
| ~ scombroid, scombroid fish | important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters. |
| ~ family istiophoridae, istiophoridae | sailfishes; spearfishes; marlins. |
| ~ atlantic sailfish, istiophorus albicans | a kind of sailfish. |
| swordfish | | |
| n. (food) | 1. swordfish | flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks. |
| ~ xiphias gladius, swordfish | 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. |
| ~ saltwater fish | flesh of fish from the sea used as food. |
| n. (animal) | 2. swordfish, xiphias gladius | 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. |
| ~ scombroid, scombroid fish | important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters. |
| ~ genus xiphias, xiphias | type genus of the Xiphiidae. |
| ~ swordfish | flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks. |
| Xiphias gladius | | |
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