Threadfish

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}]