Lizardfish

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  lizardfish \lizardfish\, lizard fish \lizard fish\n. (Zool.)
     Any of several mostly tropical marine scopeloid fish of the
     family {Synodontidae} having large mouths in lizardlike
     heads, especially the {inshore lizardfish} ({Synodus foetens}
     syn. {Synodus poeyi}) of Mideastern and Southern United
     States and West Indies; -- sometimes called {sand pike}.


  
     Note: A freshwater perch, the sauger, a different fish, is
           also called the sand pike.
  
     Syn: snakefish.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lizardfish
       n : tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads;
           found worldwide [syn: {snakefish}, {snake-fish}]