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The swordfish (Xiphias) has been used by astronomers as another name for the constellation of Dorado. [45] The word swordfish is used as a password in the 1932 Marx Brothers film Horse Feathers. It has since appeared as a password in many films, television series, books, and videogames. [46]
The Fairey Swordfish was a biplane torpedo bomber, designed by the Fairey Aviation Company.Originating in the early 1930s, the Swordfish, nicknamed "Stringbag", was principally operated by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy.
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The swordfish has the longest bill, about one-third its body length. Like a true sword, it is smooth, flat, pointed and sharp. The bills of other billfish are shorter and rounder, more like spears. [40] Billfish normally use their bills to slash at schooling fish. They swim through the fish school at high speed, slashing left and right, and ...
The Swordfish (Xiphias gladius) is a large oceanic apex predator inhabiting all the world's oceans. It is found in the entire Indian Ocean down to latitude 45°S. [ 1 ] Before the 1990s X gladius was mainly a non-targeted catch of industrial longline fisheries; but after 1990 catches increased from around 8,000 t to 36,000 t in 1998 with ...
Swordfish class destroyer, a class of two Royal Navy destroyers; Swordfish Long Range Tracking Radar, used by India for ballistic missile defense; USS Swordfish, the name of two submarines in the United States Navy; Zwaardvis class submarine (Dutch for swordfish), a Royal Netherlands Navy class of conventional attack submarines
It’s illegal to sell or buy, but casu marzu, a maggot-infested sheep milk cheese is a revered delicacy on the Italian island of Sardinia. Locals hope their unusual dairy product can shed its ...
Ginger (しょうが): most often used is pickled ginger: beni shōga and gari [3] Gobō (牛蒡): Burdock root [3] Kaiware (かいわれ大根): Daikon radish sprouts [3] Kanpyō (乾瓢, 干瓢): dried gourd [4] [1] [5] [3] Kappamaki (河童巻き): a makizushi made of cucumber and named after the Japanese water spirit who loves cucumber [3]