4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Polyneme \Pol"y*neme\, n. [Poly- + Gr. ? thread.] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the family {Polynemid[ae]}. They have several slender filaments, often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good quality. Called also {threadfish}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Threadfish \Thread"fish`\, n. (Zool.) (a) The cutlass fish. (b) A carangoid fish ({Caranx gallus}, or {Caranx crinitus}) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: thread-fish n : fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins [syn: {threadfish}, {Alectis ciliaris}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: threadfish n : fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins [syn: {thread-fish}, {Alectis ciliaris}]
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