Resembling or relating to a gar (a type of fish); having characteristics of a gar.
From gar (a freshwater fish with an elongated body and tooth-filled snout) + -ous (adjectival suffix meaning 'full of' or 'resembling'). Gar derives from Old English gār (spear), referring to the fish's spear-like shape.
The word 'garous' is so rarely used that calling something 'garous' today would puzzle most English speakers—it's a linguistic fossil reminding us that English once needed an adjective for 'gar-like,' but evolution left it behind.
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