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7 words match “SAURY”

SAURY n.
A slender marine fish (Scombresox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
BILLFISH n.
fishes: (a) The garfish (Tylosurus, or Belone, longirostris) and allied species. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).…
ELOPS n.
A genus of fishes. See Saury.
GOWDNOOK n.
The saury pike; -- called also gofnick.
SKIPJACK n.
butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
SKIPPER n.
The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
SKOPSTER n.
The saury. [Prov. Eng.]