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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.
2. 2
   slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

billfishscomberesox saurus

Example

More examples

"Pacific Saury is a type of blue fish."

Etymology

From Latin saurus, from Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

Related phrases

Atlantic sauryPacific saurySouth Pacific sauryWanieso sauryblotched sauryclouded saurycommon saurydwarf sauryfilamentous saurygracile saurygrey saurylarge-scaled saury

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