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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. |