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garpike
[ gahr-pahyk ]
garpike
/ ˈɡɑːˌpaɪk /
noun
- Also calledgarfishgar any primitive freshwater elongated bony fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North and Central America, having very long toothed jaws and a body covering of thick scales
- another name for garfish
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These fishes in many respects resemble the garpike in habits.
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The ganoids of which the sturgeon and garpike are examples, with heavy plates or scales.
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The garpike as he saw it, with amplifications from the Indians as they had seen it, gave him the subject for a good fish story.
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Such fishes as the garpike and the bowfin have lung-like air-bladders and gulp air from the surface of the water.
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These are found in the garpike and in many genera of extinct Ganoid and Crossopterygian fishes.
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