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Scomberesox saurus

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.]
   (Zo["o]l.)
   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}.

Skipper \Skip"per\, n.
   1. One who, or that which, skips.

   2. A young, thoughtless person. --Shak.

   3. (Zo["o]l.) The saury ({Scomberesox saurus}).

   4. The cheese maggot. See {Cheese fly}, under {Cheese}.

   5. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small
      butterflies of the family {Hesperiad[ae]}; -- so called
      from their peculiar short, jerking flight.

Billfish \Bill"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
   A name applied to several distinct fishes:
   (a) The garfish ({Tylosurus, or Belone, longirostris}) and
       allied species.
   (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast
       ({Scomberesox saurus}).
   (c) The {Tetrapturus albidus}, a large oceanic species
       related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
   (d) The American fresh-water garpike ({Lepidosteus osseus}).

Source : WordNet®

Scomberesox saurus
     n : slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn:
         {saury}, {billfish}]
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