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Marlin   /mˈɑrlən/  /mˈɑrlɪn/   Listen
Marlin

noun
1.
Large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes.



Related searches:
Makaira marlina
black marlin
blue marlin
striped marlin
white marlin


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"Marlin" Quotes from Famous Books



... Conseil noticed some blackish marlin three meters long with a sharp sword jutting from the upper jaw, bright-colored weevers known in Aristotle's day as sea dragons and whose dorsal stingers make them quite dangerous to pick up, then dolphinfish with brown ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... blanket and, picking up a Marlin rifle, which was their only weapon, strode out of camp; and as he was a good shot and tracker they let him go. It was getting dark when he left the shelter of the trees, and the cold in the open struck through him like a knife. The moon had not yet ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss


Words linked to "Marlin" :   Makaira, genus Makaira, Makaira nigricans, Makaira mazara, Makaira mitsukurii, Makaira albida, billfish


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