How to use garpike in a sentence
These fishes in many respects resemble the garpike in habits.
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) | David Starr JordanThe ganoids of which the sturgeon and garpike are examples, with heavy plates or scales.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts | Girl ScoutsThe garpike as he saw it, with amplifications from the Indians as they had seen it, gave him the subject for a good fish story.
The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain | Charles W. ColbySuch fishes as the garpike and the bowfin have lung-like air-bladders and gulp air from the surface of the water.
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) | David Starr JordanThese are found in the garpike and in many genera of extinct Ganoid and Crossopterygian fishes.
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) | David Starr Jordan
British Dictionary definitions for garpike
/ (ˈɡɑːˌpaɪk) /
Also called: garfish, gar any primitive freshwater elongated bony fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North and Central America, having very long toothed jaws and a body covering of thick scales
another name for garfish (def. 2)
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