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Definition: lizard fish
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.
[1913 Webster]
lizardfish
\lizardfish\, lizard fish
\lizard fish\n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any of several mostly tropical marine scopeloid fish of the
family
Synodontidae having large mouths in lizardlike
heads, especially the
inshore lizardfish (
Synodus foetens
syn.
Synodus poeyi) of Mideastern and Southern United
States and West Indies; -- sometimes called
sand pike.
Note: A freshwater perch, the sauger, a different fish, is
also called the sand pike.
Syn: snakefish.
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