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    GARPIKE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teethplay

    Synonyms:

    billfish; gar; garfish; garpike; Lepisosteus osseus

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("garpike" is a kind of...):

    ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)

    Holonyms ("garpike" is a member of...):

    genus Lepisosteus; Lepisosteus (type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars)

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