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Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters
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saury
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The saury ( Cololabis adocetus ) (not to be confused with the Pacific saury , which is related but a different species) is a member of the family Scomberesocidae , or the saury family. It is widespread in the Eastern Pacific in the surface waters, 0-0.5 ...
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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 ...
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n. slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn: billfish , Scomberesox saurus ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A marine epipelagic fish of the family ''(taxlink Scomberesocidae family noshow=1)'', with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.
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It has grown from just a small group of friends into a massive Masonic-like society of thirty or thirty-five which meets from all over the country to revert to childhood in a place called the Saury Hotel.