swordfish
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- noun
- /ˈsɔrdˌfɪʃ/
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- I helped my dad pull in a 600-pound swordfish off Hawaii.
- swordfish landings
- broadbill swordfish
- swordfish fishery
And it's like, have you ever seen those videos of swordfish moving through Shoals?
- And it's like, have you ever seen those videos of swordfish moving through Shoals?
- So the, the, the fishes that are eating other fish, you know, the tuna shark, Marlin, swordfish have more levels of, of mercury.
Examples
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Fifty-three swordfish were caught on the observed trips, with 15 retained and 38 discarded.
Academic text (1994) -
- It's a swordfish.
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Go see if they know how to smoke a swordfish, huh?
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How do you smoke a swordfish?
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Swordfish at night, tuna in the day.
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There's money in fishing swordfish at night.
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Greenlaw caught so much swordfish that prices fell in Massachusetts.
Fiction book (1999) -
Driftnets are used to capture many types of fish, including tuna, swordfish, and salmon.
Academic text (2017) -
The intent of those regulations was to reduce the mortality of immature swordfish.
Academic text (1996) -
Many restaurants serve grilled swordfish as a popular seafood dish.
Synonyms
A large fish that lives in warm seas with a long sword-like upper jaw
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Swordfish comes from sword ('long blade') and fish, because this large sea animal has a long, flat, pointed bill that looks like a sword and it uses that 'sword' to hunt other fish.