spearfish

spear +‎ fish

spearfish (plural spearfishes or spearfish)

1. Any of the marlins in the genus Tetrapturus, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.
2. A striped marlin (Kajikia audax)
3. A quillback (Carpioides cyprinus

• Atlantic longbill spearfish (Tetrapturus pfluegeri)
• Japanese spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris)
• longbill spearfish (Tetrapturus pfluegeri)
• Mediterranean shortbill spearfish (Tetrapturus belone)
• Mediterranean spearfish (Tetrapturus belone)
• roundscale spearfish (Tetrapturus georgii)
• shortbill spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris)
• slender spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris)
• spearfish remora (Remora brachyptera)
• spearfishsucker (Remora brachyptera)

spearfish (third-person singular simple present spearfishes, present participle spearfishing, simple past and past participle spearfished)

1. To try to catch a fish using a spear or spear gun.
2. To fish for spearfish by any method.

• spearfishing

• spearfish at OneLook Dictionary Search
• spearfish in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Tetrapturus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tetrapturus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Tetrapturus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons