the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > member of family Pristiophoridae (sawfish) (6)
A fish having a single hornlike process on the snout, as a swordfish. Also: the narwhal, Monodon monoceros. Now chiefly historical.
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…
As the name of a fish, shell, etc., having a projecting horn or horn-like process, or regarded as… (See quot. 1668) Obsolete.
a small shark of the family Pristiophoridæ, found in southern seas from Africa to Australia and distinguished by a saw-like flattened snout.
Short for sawfish, n. rare.