saury
English
Etymology
Eggcorn of Japanese 佐伊羅 (saira). By surface analysis, -saur (“dinosaur or other extinct reptile”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔː.ɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
saury (plural sauries or saury)
- A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.
Derived terms
- Atlantic saury (Scomberesox saurus, Scomberesox scombroides, Scomberesox simulans)
- blotched saury (Saurida nebulosa) (Australia)
- clouded saury (Saurida nebulosa) (Australia)
- common saury (Saurida tumbil) (Australia)
- dwarf saury (Scomberesox simulans) (Africa, UK)
- filamentous saury (Saurida filamentosa) (Australia)
- gracile saury (Saurida gracilis) (Australia)
- grey saury (Saurida undosquamis) (Australia)
- large-scaled saury (Saurida undosquamis) (Australia)
- longfin saury (Saurida longimanus) (Australia)
- orangemouth saury (Saurida flamma)
- Pacific saury (Cololabis saira. Scomberesox scombroides)
- painted saury (Synodus myops) (Australia)
- shortfin saury (Saurida argentea, Saurida micropectoralis) (Australia)
- shortjaw saury (Saurida isarankurai)
- silver saury (Saurida tumbil) (Australia)
- slender saury (Saurida gracilis, Saurida elongata) (Australia)
- South Pacific saury (Scomberesox scombroides)
- threadfin saury (Suarida filamentosa) (Australia)
- Wanieso saury (Saurida wanieso) (Australia)
Translations
fish of the family Scomberesocidae
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “saury”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- saury on Wikipedia.Wikipedia