halfbeak

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Halfbeak

Etymology

half + beak

Noun

halfbeak (plural halfbeaks)

  1. (zoology) Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoos or ballyhoos.

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