striped marlin

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   Pacific food and game fish marked with dark blue vertical stripes

   SynonymsMakaira mitsukurii

   Broadermarlin

Questions about striped marlin

What does striped marlin mean?

striped marlin means "Pacific food and game fish marked with dark blue vertical stripes".

What is another word for striped marlin?

Close synonyms include Makaira mitsukurii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is striped marlin a common word?

striped marlin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.