saury

noun

Any of several edible marine fishes of the family Scomberesocidae, having a slender body and elongated beak-like jaws.

noun

A fish, Scomberesox saurus, the skipper or bill-fish; any species of this genus.

noun

Any mackerel-like pelagic species of fish belonging to the family Scombresocidæ, swimming close to the surface in large schools in temperate regions.

noun

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.

noun

A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.

noun

slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters