gar
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This has likely kept gar genomes so stable that species and even genera whose last common ancestor lived more than 100 million years ago have diverged very little.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024
The alligator gar caught in eastern China last week weighed roughly 11 pounds.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
He also said voters had responded positively to his party's plans to cut VAT using the proceeds from a windfall tax on the profits of oil and gar companies.
From BBC ● May 6, 2022
Even though modern bony fishes are much more diverse today, a previous study found that in the past they were not as numerous or varied as holosteans—the prehistoric relatives of today’s gar and paddlefish.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 23, 2022
There were eels, gar, carp, river carpsuckers, gizzard shad, and buffalo.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Prehistoric-looking fish called gars, which have the slowest rate of molecular evolution of all jawed vertebrates, are the most striking examples.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024
Alligator gars, native to the Americas, were introduced to China as pet fish.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
I always loved the huge alligator snapping turtle, watch your hands, but the huge gars, alligator gars and catfish are gone forever.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
The gars, a family of fish with long bodies, extended jaws, sharp teeth, and hard scales, has been on the planet for at least 100 million years.
From The Verge ● Dec. 20, 2015
Some of the beg gars look too young to have even taken the Trial.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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He made a sweech wi' the bissam shaft 'at garred the licht o' the can'le waggle frae side to side.
From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.
An' oot at the door he gaed, halin't to ahent him wi' a bang that garred the very sweetie bottles rattle.
From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.
"There was a lad was born in Kyle," juist nearhand garred Sandy jump aff his seat.
From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.
It would be aboot ane o'clock or thereaboot when Sandy gae me a daud wi' his elba that garred me a' jump.
From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.
So I was thinking, but what garred ye be whistling in my lug that she was a Princess?
From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
The deil's in you, Monkbarns, for garring odds and evens meet.
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir