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saury
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]
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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