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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 bill·fish /ˈbɪlˌfɪʃ/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bill·fish n. Zool. A name applied to several distinct fishes: (a) The garfish (Tylosurus longirostris, or  Belone longirostris) and allied species. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 billfish
      n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard
           scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth [syn:
            gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus]
      2: giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded
         toothless upper jaw
      3: slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn:
         saury, Scomberesox saurus]
      4: elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with
         long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters [syn: needlefish,
          gar]
      [also: billfishes (pl)]