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horn-fish
1. The garfish, Belone vulgaris, so called from its long projecting beak.
a1000Andreas 370 (Gr.) Hornfisc pleᵹode, glad ᵹeond garsecg. 1599Minsheu Sp. Dict., Hornefish, enxarraco, xarraco. 1611Florio, Cornuto..Also the Horne-fish. 1752Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 223 We call it the Gar-fish, and, in some places, the Horn-fish.
2. The sauger or sand-pike, Stizostedium canadense.
1885J. S. Kingsley Stand. Nat. Hist. III. 229 Sauger, sand-pike, gray-pike, blue-pike, and horn-fish, are..designations of a smaller pike-perch, the Stizostedion canadense.
3. A fish of the family Syngnathidæ; a pipe-fish: so called from the horny texture of the exoskeleton. |