thread-fish

3 definitions found

thread-fish - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Polyneme \Pol"y*neme\, n. [Poly- + Gr. ? thread.] (Zool.)
     Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the
     family Polynemid[ae]. They have several slender filaments,
     often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield
     isinglass of good quality. Called also threadfish.
     [1913 Webster]

  Threadfish \Thread"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     (a) The cutlass fish.
     (b) A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or Caranx crinitus)
         having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins
         prolonged in the form of long threads.
         [1913 Webster]

thread-fish - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  thread-fish
      n 1: fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal
           fins [syn: threadfish, thread-fish, Alectis ciliaris]