NOUN
- long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel
How To Use cutlassfish In A Sentence
- The cutlassfishes are characterized by a scaleless, band-shaped body tapering to a slim pointed tail, with one dorsal fin extending the whole length of the body; the anal is also long but is very low.
- Oh, and I caught a bunch of cutlassfish in the lagoon of Puerto Maya on my fly rod.
- The scabbard fish, variety of the cutlassfish, is the most highly regarded of the cutlassfish family.
- Sometimes, during periods of heavy fishing pressure when dozens of boats are slow-trolling live menhaden, anglers trolling dead cutlassfish do exceptionally well since the trolled offerings stand out.
- Atlantic cutlassfish, or ribbonfish as they're more often called in Texas, have no scales.
