saury Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters
    billfish; Scomberesox saurus.

WordNet

Sau"ry noun
Etymology
Etymol. uncertain.
Wordforms
plural Sauries
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) 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.

Webster 1913