(n.) A genus of fishes comprising the common swordfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) n. was recovered from the stomach of Xiphias gladius occurring in the Kuroshio.
(2) The fiber architecture of the ventricular myocardium has been studied in elasmobranch (Isurus oxyrhinchus, Galeorhinus galeus, Prionace glauca) and teleost (Xiphias gladius, Thunnus thynnus, Thunnus alalunga) fish species with hearts displaying mixed types of ventricular musculature (compact and trabecular).
Xiphioid
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cetacean of the genus Xiphius or family Xiphiidae.