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scabbardfish

American  
[skab-erd-fish] / ˈskæb ərdˌfɪʃ /
Or scabbard fish

noun

plural

scabbardfish,

plural

scabbardfishes

  1. any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.

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Instead, it appeared to me to belong to the scabbardfish family.

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