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Marlin

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Noun

1. marlin

large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Marlin

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noun plural -lin or -lins
any of several large scombroid food and game fishes of the genera Makaira, Istiompax, and Tetrapturus, of warm and tropical seas, having a very long upper jaw: family Istiophoridae
. Also called: spearfish

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Marlin

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nounWord forms: plural ˈmarlin or ˈmarlins
any of several large, slender, deep-sea billfishes, esp. a bluish species (Makaira nigricans)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Marlin

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n.
Any of several large marine fishes of the genera Makaira and Tetrapturus, which have an elongated spearlike upper jaw and are highly valued as game fish.
n.
Variant of marline.
n.
Nautical
A light rope made of two loosely twisted strands.

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