cutlass fish

noun

variants or cutlassfish

plural cutlass fishes or cutlassfish or cutlassfishes

: any of a family (Trichiuridae) of eellike fish of warm seas

especially : a silvery fish (Trichiurus lepturus) with an elongate body tapering to a hairlike filament and lacking caudal and pelvic fins

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