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MARLIN

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Dictionary entry overview: What does marlin mean?

• MARLIN (noun)
The noun MARLIN has 1 sense:

1. large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes

Familiarity information: MARLIN used as a noun is very rare.

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• MARLIN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes

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Nouns denoting animals

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

billfish (giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw)

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

blue marlin; Makaira nigricans (largest marlin; may reach 2000 pounds; found worldwide in warm seas)

black marlin; Makaira marlina; Makaira mazara (large game fish in the Pacific Ocean; may reach 1000 pounds)

Makaira mitsukurii; striped marlin (Pacific food and game fish marked with dark blue vertical stripes)

Makaira albida; white marlin (small marlin (to 180 pounds) of western Atlantic)

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

genus Makaira; Makaira (marlins)

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