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English Dictionary: saury by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
saury
n
  1. slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn: saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.]
      (Zo[94]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}.
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