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Webster 1913 Edition

(häf′bēk)

Noun.

(Zool.)

Any slender, marine fish of the genus

Hemirhamphus

, or of the family

Hemiramphidae

, having an elongated protruding lower jaw; – called also

balahoo

Halfbeak

halfbeak ‎(plural halfbeaks)

(zoology) Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoo.

any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae