1. Large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night
   "The Xiphias gladius used its bill to slash through schools of fish";
   - swordfish

Type of: scombroid, scombroid fish

Part of: genus Xiphias, Xiphias

Encyclopedia: Xiphias gladius