scabbardfish

Or scab·bard fish

[skab-erd-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.

Example Sentences

The glistening sea produce included chromelike silver scabbardfish, roe, grouper, monkfish, clams and tuna from the Azores.

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This channel scabbardfish was caught off Mexico.

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

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