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Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, Sawfish, entry in International Wildlife Encyclopedia, Volume 16: Rifleman - sea slug, page 2238, The sawlike snout that gives the sawfish its common name may represent up to one-third of its total body length. Despite its sharklike shape, the sawfish is more closely related to rays.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ray
Narrower terms: smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinatus
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Asturian:
sierra
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Bulgarian:
риба трион
(riba trion)
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Catalan:
peix serra
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Catalan:
serra
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Chinese Mandarin:
锯鳐科
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Czech:
piloun
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Danish:
savfisk
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Finnish:
saharausku
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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French:
poisson-scie
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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French:
scie
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Galician:
peixe serra
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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German:
Sägefisch
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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German:
Sägerochen
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Ancient Greek:
πρίστις
(prístis)
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Greenlandic:
eqalussuaq pilattuutitalik
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Hungarian:
fűrészhal
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Hungarian:
fűrészesrája
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Italian:
pesce sega
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Japanese:
鋸鱝
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Japanese:
鋸鱏
(nokogiriei)
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Kazakh:
ара-балық
(ara-balyq)
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Korean:
톱 가오리
(top gaori)
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Central Kurdish:
ھەڕەماسی
(herremasî)
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Navajo:
chį́į́h yee achʼiishíhii
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Polish:
piła
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Polish:
ryba piła
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Portuguese:
peixe-serra
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Russian:
ры́ба-пила́
(rýba-pilá)
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Serbo-Croatian:
testèrača
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Serbo-Croatian:
testèrāš
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Serbo-Croatian:
pìlār
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Serbo-Croatian:
píla
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Slovene:
pȋlar
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Spanish:
pez sierra
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Spanish:
sierra
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Swedish:
sågfisk
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Tagalog:
lagaring-pating
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Tagalog:
tagan
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Thai:
ปลาฉนาก
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Turkish:
testere balığı
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Ottoman Turkish:
دستره بالغی
(destere balığı)
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Ottoman Turkish:
مارانغوز بالغی
(marangoz balığı)
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Volapük:
saovafit
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Welsh:
llifbysgodyn
— ray with saw-shaped snout
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Welsh:
pysgodyn llif
— ray with saw-shaped snout
