A long, narrow fish with sharp teeth and a hard, scale-covered body, found in North and Central America.
From Old English 'gār' meaning spear, named for the fish's long, spear-like snout. The word is ancient and describes the fish's most distinctive feature.
Gar fish have barely changed in 100 million years, and when early English settlers saw them, they named them after a spear because the snout looked like a weapon—it's a creature that time forgot with a name that goes back to Old English.
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