lizard fish

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lizard fish - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. Sauries. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster]

  lizardfish \lizardfish\, lizard fish \lizard fish\n. (Zool.)
     Any of several mostly tropical marine scopeloid fish of the
     family Synodontidae having large mouths in lizardlike
     heads, especially the inshore lizardfish (Synodus foetens
     syn. Synodus poeyi) of Mideastern and Southern United
     States and West Indies; -- sometimes called sand pike.
  
     Note: A freshwater perch, the sauger, a different fish, is
           also called the sand pike.
  
     Syn: snakefish.
          [WordNet 1.5]