What is "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.

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.