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Saury

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sau=ry

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Saury has 1 sense

saury(n = noun.animal) billfish, scomberesox saurus - slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters; Array

is a kind of teleost, teleost fish, teleostan

is a member of genus scomberesox, genus scombresox, scomberesox, scombresox

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Saury, n. [Etymol. uncertain.].

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. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Saury, n. (pl. -ies) a long-beaked marine fish, Scomberesox saurus, of temperate waters.

Etymology

perh. f. LL f. Gk sauros horse-mackerel

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