英语词汇“sawfish”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	sawfish
释义	sawfish\|ˈsɔːfɪʃ\| [saw n.¹ Cf. L. serra sawfish (lit. ‘saw’).] A fish of the genus Pristis, the snout of which ends in a long flat projection with teeth on each edge; a saw-shark of the family Pristiophoridæ (cf. saw-shark s.v. saw n.¹ 5 d). Also applied to fishes of certain allied genera. 1664Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 17 A Saw-fish, vulgarly called the Sword-fish.1668Charleton Onomast. 123 Monoceros Clusii, the little Vnicorn, or Saw-fish.1681Grew Musæum i. §v. i. 84 The Saw-Fish. Pristis.1796Stedman Surinam I. i. 11 Another animal, which is called the saw-fish, carries also an offensive weapon.1860G. Bennett Gatherings Naturalist Austral.* 35 There is a species of Saw-fish peculiar to the Australian seas.1863Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 216 The Tentaculated Saw⁓fish (Pristiophorus cirratus).1880A. C. L. G. Gunther Introd. Study of Fishes 335 These Sharks [sc. Pristiophoridæ] resemble so much the common Saw-fishes as to be easily confounded with them.1934Sun (Baltimore) 6 July 1/7 A saw fish measuring ten feet nine inches..was landed.1978O. White Silent Reach xii. 124 Sometimes you catch sawfish and barramundi there.
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