Sawfish

Synonyms for "sawfish" (1 found)

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Translations

45 translations across 32 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • πρίστις noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Asturian

1 entries
  • sierra noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • риба трион noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Catalan

2 entries
  • peix serra noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • serra noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Central Kurdish

1 entries
  • ھەڕەماسی noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 锯鳐科 noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Czech

1 entries
  • piloun noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Danish

1 entries
  • savfisk noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Finnish

1 entries
  • saharausku noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

French

2 entries
  • poisson-scie noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • scie noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Galician

1 entries
  • peixe serra noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

German

2 entries
  • Sägefisch noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • Sägerochen noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Greenlandic

1 entries
  • eqalussuaq pilattuutitalik noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • fűrészesrája noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • fűrészhal noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Italian

1 entries
  • pesce sega noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 鋸鱏 noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • 鋸鱝 noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • ара-балық noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Korean

1 entries
  • 톱 가오리 noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Navajo

1 entries
  • chį́į́h yee achʼiishíhii noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries
  • دستره بالغی noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • مارانغوز بالغی noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Polish

2 entries
  • piła noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • ryba piła noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • peixe-serra noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Russian

1 entries
  • ры́ба-пила́ noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • pìlār noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • píla noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • testèrača noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • testèrāš noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Slovene

1 entries
  • pȋlar noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Spanish

2 entries
  • pez sierra noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • sierra noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Swedish

1 entries
  • sågfisk noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • lagaring-pating noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • tagan noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Thai

1 entries
  • ปลาฉนาก noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Turkish

1 entries
  • testere balığı noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Volapük

1 entries
  • saovafit noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Welsh

2 entries
  • llifbysgodyn noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)
  • pysgodyn llif noun (ray with saw-shaped snout)

Sample sentences

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2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, Sawfish, entry in International Wildlife Encyclopedia, Volume 16: Rifleman - sea slug, page 2238, The sawlike snout that gives the sawfish its common name may represent up to one-third of its total body length. Despite its sharklike shape, the sawfish is more closely related to rays.

Source: wiktionary

Because of their sharklike appearance, people often refer to the sawfishes as sharks. However, they are actually related to the skates and rays because the gills are ventral, the eyes are on top of the head, and the pectoral fins are attached to the head.

Source: wiktionary

Smalltooth sawfish native to rivers in south-west Florida appear to have given birth without sex – essentially cloning themselves. The sawfish (Pristis pectinata) – a type of ray that grows up to 7 metres long – is a critically endangered species.[…]The sawfish is the first vertebrate shown to use parthenogenesis in the wild.

Source: wiktionary

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