hairtail
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
hair + tail
Noun
hairtail (plural hairtails)
- Any of a number of species of marine fishes of the family Trichiuridae, long, band-like, with a slender, pointed tail.
Synonyms
- (fish in family Trichiuridae): bladefish.
hairtail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.