halfbeak

half·beak

H0021550 (hăf′bēk′, häf′-)n. Any of various slender, chiefly marine fishes of the family Hemiramphidae of warm waters, having a blue or green and silvery body and an elongated lower jaw that often has a bright red or orange tip.

halfbeak

(ˈhɑːfˌbiːk) n (Animals) any marine and freshwater teleost fish of the tropical and subtropical family Hemiramphidae, having an elongated body with a short upper jaw and a long protruding lower jaw

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halfbeak - tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jawteleost, teleost fish, teleostan - a bony fish of the subclass Teleosteifamily Hemiramphidae, Hemiramphidae - halfbeaks; marine and freshwater fishes closely related to the flying fishes but not able to glide