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Type Words
Synonyms billfish, garfish, garpike, lepisosteus osseus
Type of ganoid fish, ganoid
Type Words
Synonyms billfish, needlefish
Type of teleost fish, teleost, teleostan
Has types timucu

Examples of gar

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It doesn't take much harvest of large gar to send the population spinning south.
From the chron.com
In some cases, Surprise said, GAR simply left large plots of land off the rolls.
From the timesunion.com
Randy Oppliger of Columbus set the surface spearfishing record for longnose gar.
From the omaha.com
Includes Northern brook lamprey, Atlantic sturgeon, spotted gar and ghost shiner.
From the post-gazette.com
The purpose of a GAR, I thought, was to fix things and keep the article listed.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Gar and bowfin have a vascularized swim bladder that functions in the same way.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Wyatt Earp was listed as a GA in April, then went through a GAR and was delisted.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Wyatt Gutzmer's shortnose gar stretched 27 inches and weighed 2 pounds, 14 ounces.
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Gar compete with popular game fish and are regarded as a nuisance by many anglers.
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  • Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
  • Needlefish: elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
  • The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who had served in the American Civil War. The GAR was among the first organized advocacy group in American politics. It was succeeded by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW).
  • In American English the name gar (or garpike) is strictly applied to members of the Lepisosteidae, a family including seven living species of fish in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally marine, waters of eastern North America, Central America, and the Caribbean islands.
  • The Gar style is a Tibetan form of chanting and dancing.
  • The spear together with the sword, the longsax and the shield was the main equipment of the Germanic warriors during the Migration period and the Early Middle Ages.
  • This article is about the fictional universe in the fantasy novel series The Sword of Truth, created by Terry Goodkind.
  • (GARS) Glycyl-tRNA synthetase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the GARS gene.
  • Gars is a municipality in the district of Mu00FChldorf in Bavaria in Germany. It is the location of Gars Abbey.