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Answer for the clue "Swimmer with a serrated snout ", 7 letters:
sawfish

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sawfishes , also known as carpenter sharks , are a family of rays characterized by a long, narrow, flattened rostrum , or nose extension, lined with sharp transverse teeth, arranged so as to resemble a saw. Several species of sawfishes can grow to about ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout [also: sawfishes (pl)]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sawfish \Saw"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis . They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also saw-fish , 1660s; see saw (n.1.) + fish (n.).

Usage examples of sawfish.

And by the time you finished paddlingat Cape Sable or Snake Bight or the Ten Thousand Islandsyou would have also been among roseate spoonbills and white pelicans, eels and mangrove snakes, sawfish and redfish and crusty loggerhead turtles.

Ordinarily Brinker would have been aboard her own ship, the destroyer we had captured from the Carolines, but she was on the Sawfish now to help interview pirates and ascertain their competencies.

The hilt was sawfish hide, good for a grip, even with the fingerless chamois leather gloves her father insisted she wearif she was to have a personal trainer at all.