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Meaning of "garpike" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GARPIKE

garpike  [ˈɡɑːˌpaɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GARPIKE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Garpike is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GARPIKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

garpike

Gar

In American English, the name gar is strictly applied to members of the Lepisosteidae, a family including seven living species of fish in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally marine, waters of eastern North America, Central America, and the Caribbean islands.

Definition of garpike in the English dictionary

The definition of garpike in the dictionary is Also called: garfish, gar. any primitive freshwater elongated bony fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North and Central America, having very long toothed jaws and a body covering of thick scales.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GARPIKE


alike
əˈlaɪk
bike
baɪk
dislike
dɪsˈlaɪk
handspike
ˈhændˌspaɪk
like
laɪk
like-for-like
ˌlaɪkfəˈlaɪk
likes
ˈlaɪk
marlinespike
ˈmɑːlɪŋˌspaɪk
marlingspike
ˈmɑːlɪŋˌspaɪk
marlinspike
ˈmɑːlɪnˌspaɪk
mic
maɪk
mike
maɪk
muspike
ˈmʌspaɪk
pike
paɪk
rampike
ˈræmpaɪk
shunpike
ˈʃʌnˌpaɪk
spike
spaɪk
strike
straɪk
turnpike
ˈtɜːnˌpaɪk
unlike
ʌnˈlaɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GARPIKE

garnisher
garnishing
garnishment
garnishor
garnishry
garniture
Garonne
garotte
garotter
garoupa
garre
garret
garret window
garreted
garreteer
Garrett
Garrick
garrigue
garrison
garrison life

WORDS THAT END LIKE GARPIKE

childlike
dike
dirt bike
feel like
human-like
hunger strike
jack pike
kike
marlin(e) spike
motorbike
mountain bike
Nike
road bike
sunlike
superbike
the like
there´s nothing like
tike
trike
walleyed pike

Synonyms and antonyms of garpike in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «garpike» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GARPIKE

Find out the translation of garpike to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of garpike from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «garpike» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

garpike
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Garpike
570 millions of speakers

English

garpike
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

garpike
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

garpike
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сарган
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

garpike
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

garpike
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

garpike
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Garpike
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

garpike
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

garpike
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

garpike
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Garpike
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

garpike
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

garpike
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गारपीक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

garpike
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Garpike
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Garpike
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сарган
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

garpike
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

garpike
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

garpike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

garpike
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

garpike
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of garpike

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GARPIKE»

The term «garpike» is used very little and occupies the 173.734 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GARPIKE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about garpike

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GARPIKE»

Discover the use of garpike in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to garpike and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Early Development of Garpike and Sturgeon...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Bashford Dean, 2012
2
Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment
Evidently, this is associated with the fact that carbon dioxide escapes through the relatively permeable skin, thus not building up to sufficient concentrations to be physiologically important. Garpike The garpike (Lepisosteus osseus) is a relic of  ...
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, 1997
3
Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Biology and ...
For garpike from the waters around Riigen Island in the southern Baltic Luckas et al. (1980) found total DDT concentrations of the same order of magnitude as the values measured for garpike from the Vaike Vain Strait. The high concentrations  ...
4
Recent Vertebrate Carcasses and Their Paleobiological ...
They have been considered a highly specialized relic of Semionotus-like fishes. The most well-known occurrence of garpike in Germany is in the middle Eocene bituminous shale at Messel, near Darmstadt. Isolated scales and larger pieces of  ...
Johannes Weigelt, 2009
5
Where the Sea Used to Be
The first full-length novel by one of our finest fiction writers, Where the Sea Used to Be tells the story of a struggle between a father and his daughter for the souls of two men, Matthew and Wallis-his protégés, her lovers.
Rick Bass, 2014
6
Fish Endocrinology
Bony Fish: Holostei Structure of the Neurohypophysis of the Holostei It is probable that the Holostei, the bowfins and the garpike, are more closely related to the teleost fish than are the other "preteleost" groups— the brachiopterygians and the ...
Manju Yadav, 2008
7
An Introduction to Biology for Everyone
Figure 33f: Left, Lepisosteus oculatus the garpike, another large fish found in major rivers of north and south America and Europe. They can breath air and do so if their water's polluted and low in oxygen, enabling them to survive while other ...
William M. MacArthur, Mark N. Ludwigson, 2010
8
Hormones of Fishes
The neurohypophysial system is well developed in the various species of bowfin, Amia, and of garpike, Lepidosteus. The preoptic Figure 4.8 : The hypothalamus and pituitary of the garpike, Hormones of Neurohypophysis 197.
A.n. Shukla, 2009
9
An Encyclopedia of Natural History
The garpike (Belonr), the sauries (St:oml.resoi), and the flying-fish (Exocirtus), collectively constitute a section and family characterised by the feeble development of the spines of the fins. They have the pelvic fins abdominal in situation, and ...
10
Marine Fisheries and the Ancient Greek Economy
49-50) of a traditional night fishery for garpike in the Sporades, just north of Euboea, where he tells us “une grande partie de la population se livre, en automne, a la péche de Bélones.” On dark nights they set out to sea where they are assisted ...
Ephraim Lytle, 2006

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GARPIKE»

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1
The Zombie Fish Is About to Invade Canada
... against the carp invader; higher-level predators like the muskellunge or garpike will also be affected as their food sources disappear. «Motherboard, Apr 14»
2
Whitehall native pens history of Lake Champlain monster
Other critics speculate that people actually have seen sea lions or garpike. Whether Champ is really an undiscovered dinosaur or the ... «Glens Falls Post-Star, Jan 13»
3
Trenton wants to be ultimate fishing town
... and small mouth bass, northern pike, muskellunge, yellow perch, crappie, salmon, brown trout, rainbow trout and the hard-to-catch garpike. «Belleville Intelligencer, Apr 12»

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