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Scomberesox saurus

Skipper \Skip"per\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, skips.

  2. A young, thoughtless person.
    --Shak.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) The saury ( Scomberesox saurus).

  4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

  5. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiad[ae]; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.

Scomberesox saurus

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.

Scomberesox saurus

Billfish \Bill"fish`\ (b[i^]l"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zo["o]l.) A name applied to several distinct fishes:

  1. The garfish ( Tylosurus longirostris, or Belone longirostris) and allied species.

  2. The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast ( Scomberesox saurus).

  3. The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.

  4. The American fresh-water garpike ( Lepidosteus osseus).