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SAURY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does saury mean?
• SAURY (noun)
The noun SAURY has 1 sense:
1. slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters
Familiarity information: SAURY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
billfish; saury; Scomberesox saurus
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)
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