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SAURY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters
Synonyms:
billfish; saury; Scomberesox saurus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("saury" is a kind of...):
teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
Holonyms ("saury" is a member of...):
genus Scomberesox; genus Scombresox; Scomberesox; Scombresox (a genus of Scomberesocidae)