GAR

Pronunciation (US):

• GAR (noun)
  The noun GAR has 2 senses:

1. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
2. elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters

  Familiarity information: GAR used as a noun is rare.

• GAR (noun)

Meaning:

Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

billfish; gar; garfish; garpike; Lepisosteus osseus

Hypernyms ("gar" is a kind of...):

ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)

Holonyms ("gar" is a member of...):

genus Lepisosteus; Lepisosteus (type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars)

Meaning:

Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

needlefish; gar; billfish

Hypernyms ("gar" is a kind of...):

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gar"):

timucu (found in warm waters of western Atlantic)

Holonyms ("gar" is a member of...):

Belonidae; family Belonidae (ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars)