halfbeak

1. 1.

   tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw

   Broaderteleost fish

   Part ofHemiramphidae

Other forms of halfbeak

plural

halfbeaks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about halfbeak

What does halfbeak mean?

halfbeak means "tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw".

How many syllables are in halfbeak?

halfbeak has 3 syllables: half-be-ak. The stress falls on "half".

Is halfbeak a common word?

halfbeak is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.