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gui⋅tar⋅fish

  [gi-tahr-fish]
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–noun, plural (especially collectively) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish⋅es.
any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
Origin:
1900–05; guitar + fish
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gui·tar·fish   (gĭ-tär'fĭsh')   
n.   pl. guitarfish or gui·tar·fish·es
Any of several marine fishes of the family Rhinobatidae, having a guitar-shaped body and related to the skates and rays.
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guitarfish

an order (Rhinobatiformes) of fish closely related to the rays. The order contains some 47 to 50 species arranged in three families (Platyrhinidae, Rhinobatidae, and Rhynchobatidae).

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