scabbardfish

or scab·bard fish

[ skab-erd-fish ]

noun

, plural (especially collectively) scab·bard·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) scab·bard·fish·es.

1. any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.

Example Sentences

The glistening sea produce included chromelike silver scabbardfish, roe, grouper, monkfish, clams and tuna from the Azores.

From Washington Post

This channel scabbardfish was caught off Mexico.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, it appeared to me to belong to the scabbardfish family.

From Time Magazine Archive