SAURY

saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus

(noun) slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

saury (plural sauries)

A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.

Anagrams

• Surya, SĹ«rya

Source: Wiktionary


Sau"ry, n.; pl. Sauries. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.)

Definition: A slender marine fish (Scombresox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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