marlin
any large, saltwater game fish of the genera Makaira and Tetrapterus, having the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike structure.
Origin of marlin
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a male given name.
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That’s why marlin, a psychologist and neuroscientist at Columbia University who has now fostered children herself, studies a unique sliver of epigenetics, or the impact our environments and behaviors have on our genes.
The Brilliant 10: The most innovative up-and-coming minds in science | Bill Gourgey | September 20, 2021 | Popular-Sciencemarlin began her work, which centers on brain development and learning, by identifying one of the mechanisms responsible for a seismic shift in social behavior.
The Brilliant 10: The most innovative up-and-coming minds in science | Bill Gourgey | September 20, 2021 | Popular-Science“Wait…” Suddenly a huge, graceful black marlin leaps out of the water, sending a shower of water ten feet high.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile | Robert Ward | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTI was out, maybe in the Great Barrier Reef catching black marlin.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile | Robert Ward | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe likes when the sun glances off it from the top, because it looks like the black marlin.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile | Robert Ward | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST
One more word about the mineral water industry in marlin, Texas, and I was about to scream.
The dedication of State Department diplomats such as marlin Hardinger—on his fourth year in Lashkar Gah—is breathtaking.
What the Frontier of Afghanistan Tells Us About the War | John Kael Weston | May 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe fish resembled a small marlin in shape, but it looked as if its sides had been painted by an abstract artist.
What Rough Beast? | Jefferson HigheJordde suddenly seized up a marlin pin, raised it, and shouted at Urson, "Get down below before I break your skull open."
The Jewels of Aptor | Samuel R. DelanyJordde's marlin made an inch of splinters in the length of wood against which he had been leaning.
The Jewels of Aptor | Samuel R. DelanyIt was a fierce effort to free the hook, a leap not beautiful and graceful, like that of the marlin, but magnificent and dogged.
Tales of Fishes | Zane GreyWe had learned the last few days that broadbills will strike when not on the surface, just as marlin swordfish do.
Tales of Fishes | Zane Grey
British Dictionary definitions for marlin
/ (ˈmɑːlɪn) /
any of several large scombroid food and game fishes of the genera Makaira, Istiompax, and Tetrapturus, of warm and tropical seas, having a very long upper jaw: family Istiophoridae: Also called: spearfish
Origin of marlin
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