Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawfishes
Literary usage of Sawfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"ANGEL FISH—sawfishes and the pectoral fins are large and continued anteriorly
toward the head. The teeth, which generally have large roots, are compressed ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"Whales are said to be sometimes killed by sawfishes, and the saw has been ...
sawfishes are seldom seen near the shore, and no species is reckoned among ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"In a number of anatomical characters, however, the sawfishes differ from ...
Whales are said to be sometimes killed by sawfishes, and the saw has been ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"In a number of anatomical characters, however, the sawfishes differ from ...
Whales are said to be sometimes killed by sawfishes, and the saw has been ..."
5. The Animals and Man: An Elementary Textbook of Zoology and Human Physiology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Mary Isabel McCracken (1911)
"The sawfishes live in tropical rivers, descending to the sea. Food-fishes and
fish-hatcheries.—Most fishes are suitable for food, though not all. ..."
6. The Animals and Man: An Elementary Textbook of Zoology and Human Physiology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Mary Isabel McCracken (1911)
"... its owner formidable among the small sardines and herring-like fishes on which
it feeds. The sawfishes live in tropical rivers, descending to the sea. ..."
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