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Webster 1913 Edition
Hairtail
Hair′tailˊ
(-tālˊ)
, Noun.
(Zool.)
Any species of marine fishes of the genus
Trichiurus
; esp., Trichiurus lepturus
of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish
. Definition 2024
hairtail
hairtail
English
Trichiurus lepturus (hairtail)
Noun
hairtail (plural hairtails)
- Any of a number of species of marine fishes of the family Trichiuridae, long, band-like, with a slender, pointed tail.
Synonyms
- (fish in family Trichiuridae): bladefish.
hairtail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913