Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun billfish

4 senses of billfish

Sense 1
gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus -- (primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth)
       => ganoid, ganoid fish -- (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)

Sense 2
billfish -- (giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw)
       => scombroid, scombroid fish -- (important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters)

Sense 3
saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus -- (slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters)
       => teleost fish, teleost, teleostan -- (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Sense 4
needlefish, gar, billfish -- (elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters)
       => teleost fish, teleost, teleostan -- (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)