needlefish

English

A needlefish

Wikispecies

Etymology

From needle +‎ fish.

Noun

needlefish (plural needlefish or needlefishes)

1. Slender fish, in the family Belonidae, usually found in shallow marine habitats.

Derived terms

• Japanese needlefish
• Mexican needlefish

Translations

slender fish

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: chínfanu (ast), aguya (ast)
• Bulgarian: морска игла f (morska igla)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鶴鱵 / 鹤𮬤, 鹤鱵 (hèzhēn), 楊枝魚 / 杨枝鱼 (zh) (yángzhīyú)

• Finnish: nokkakala (fi)
• French: aiguillette (fr) f
• Galician: alcrique (gl) m
• Georgian: ზღვისქარიყლაპიასებრნი (zɣviskariq̇laṗiasebrni)
• German: Hornhecht m
• Greek: ζαργάνα (el) f (zargána)
• Irish: snáthaid mhara f
• Japanese: 駄津 (ダツ, datsu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: horngjel m

• Portuguese: agulhão m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: игла́-ры́ба (ru) f (iglá-rýba), морска́я игла́ f (morskája iglá), сарга́н (ru) m (sargán) (garfish, billfish)
• Spanish: agujón (es) m
• Tagalog: susuwi, lungi
• Turkish: zargana (tr)
• Ukrainian: сарга́н m (sarhán), го́лка-ри́ба f (hólka-rýba)
• Welsh: môr-nodwydd f

See also

• garfish