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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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;
[syn: swordfish, Xiphias gladius]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Swordfish \Sword"fish`\, n. 1. (Zool.) (a) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long. (b) The gar pike. (c) The cutlass fish. [1913 Webster] 2. (Astron.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. [1913 Webster] Swordfish sucker (Zool.), a remora (Remora brachyptera) which attaches itself to the swordfish. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Xiphias gladius n 1: 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 [syn: swordfish, Xiphias gladius]