Sau·ry n.; pl. Sauries   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.

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 Skip·per n.
 1. One who, or that which, skips.
 2. A young, thoughtless person.
 3. Zool. The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
 4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
 5. Zool. Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.


 Bill·fish n. Zool. A name applied to several distinct fishes: (a) The garfish (Tylosurus longirostris, or  Belone longirostris) and allied species. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

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 Scomberesox saurus
      n : slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn:
          saury, billfish]