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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Sauries

(#)

[Etymol. uncertain.]

(Zool.)

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

saury ‎(plural sauries)

A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.

fish of the family Scomberesocidae