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Definition of Saury
1. Noun. Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters.
Generic synonyms: Teleost, Teleost Fish, Teleostan
Group relationships: Genus Scomberesox, Genus Scombresox, Scomberesox, Scombresox
Definition of Saury
1. n. A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
Definition of Saury
1. Noun. A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Saury
1. a marine fish [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Saury
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Origin: Etymol. Uncertain.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saury
Literary usage of Saury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)
"Mr RF Logan referred to the immense influx of the saury Pike, Scomberesox Sauris,
which visited the Firth of Forth in the beginning of November. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)
"Mr RF Logan referred to the immense influx of the saury Pike, Scomberesox Sauris,
which visited the Firth of Forth in the beginning of November. ..."
3. The Intellectual Observer (1862)
"... OR saury. BY JONATHAN COUCH, PLS expressed the wonder he felt that animals
could bo created with such properties as to be able to pass their lives ..."
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