NOUN
- primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
How To Use garpike In A Sentence
- The alligator garpike cannot really be recommended as an aquarium fish because of its size.
- Once, she said, as she stood in shallow water in her high-necked, skirted, black bathing suit, a long-nosed garpike swam across her toes and startled her.
- Several species of garpike occur in marine waters, but these tend to be the giant species, and the small spotted garpike is normally only found in either fresh or slightly brackish water.
- The ganoids of which the sturgeon and garpike are examples, with heavy plates or scales. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
- A few freshwater fishes may occur in the least saline parts of the estuary (for example garpike, ropefishes and cichlids).
- Some of the fish orders with both fresh and saltwater species are the toadfish order, garpike order, bowfin, sturgeon, herring/anchovy, salmon/trout/pike, catfish, clingfish, stickleback, scorpionfish, and flatfish orders.
- The garpike as he saw it, with amplifications from the Indians as they had seen it, gave him the subject for a good fish story. The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain
- For both the organochlorine pesticides and PCBs, the concentrations were higher in the homogenates of migrating pelagic partly open-sea species (herring, sprat, garpike) than in the homogenates of less migrating coastal species (smelt, pike, perch).
- The long-nosed garpike is common everywhere in shallow water.
- The department may designate certain waters in which a rubber or spring propelled spear may be used for the taking of carp, dogfish, garpike, and suckers.