Usually means: Large, predatory fish with spear-like bills.
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  1. billfish: Merriam-Webster
  2. billfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. billfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. billfish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. billfish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Billfish, billfish: Wordnik
  7. billfish: Wiktionary
  8. billfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. billfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Billfish, billfish: Dictionary.com
  11. Billfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Billfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. billfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. billfish: Rhymezone
  15. Billfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. billfish: FreeDictionary.org
  17. billfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. billfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (billfish)

noun:  Any of several fish, of the families Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae, that have an elongated jaw.
noun:  Other fish with elongated jaws:
noun:  gars (Lepisosteidae spp.)
noun:  sauries (Scomberesocidae spp.)
noun:  silver gar (Strongylura maritima, in family Belonidae)
noun:  northern pipefish (Syngnathus fuscus, in family Syngnathidae)

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