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for saury
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; 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.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
saury
n 1: slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn:
saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus]
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