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Gar pike
Gar Gar, n. [Prob. AS. g[=a]r dart, spear, lance. The name is applied to the fish on account of its long and slender body and pointed head. Cf. Goad, Gore, v.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish. (b) The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike. Gar pike, or Garpike (Zo["o]l.), a large, elongated ganoid fish of the genus Lepidosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical America.
Gar pike
Gar pike Gar" pike` or Garpike Gar"pike` (Zo["o]l.) See under Gar.

Meaning of Gar pike from wikipedia

- The garfish (Belone belone), also known as the garpike, needlefish or sea needle, is a pelagic, oceanodromous needlefish found in brackish and marine waters...
- closely related to pike, which are in the fish family Esocidae. All of the gars are relatively large fish, but the alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula)...
- Profitable Pool Positions. Potter, George E. (1923) "Food of the Short-Nosed Gar-Pike (Lepidosteus platystomus) in Lake Okoboji, Iowa," Proceedings of the Iowa...
- gar-pike and sturgeon. Journal of Morphology 11, 1–53. Holloway A. (1954) Notes on the Life History and Management of the Shortnose and Lognose Gars in...
- The longnose gar was first described by Carl Linnaeus (1758), who gave it the name Esox osseus. The generic name Esox, which is for pike, was later changed...
- journals clarifies that Chaoufaou refers to gar (or gar pike), specifically Lepisosteus osseus (the longnose gar). An 1819 report in the Plattsburgh Republican...
- The Journal of Morphology, Volume 11, 1895]. The Early Development of Gar-Pike and Sturgeon. Boston: Ginn & Company. hdl:2027/hvd.32044107318081. Official...
- Alligatorfish (family Agonidae) Alligator gar Amberjack (genus Seriola) American sole (family Achiridae) Amur pike Anchovy (family Engraulidae) Anemonefish...
- freshwater fish pursued by recreational anglers. Alligator gar American paddlefish Amur catfish Amur pike Arapaima Arctic grayling Asian arowana Asp (fish) Atlantic...
- universe, but is set on the planet Melange and involves the character Gar Pike, alias Magnus d'Armand. This was followed in 1995, with the novels A Wizard...