sawfish (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *sawfish*:
NOUN	animal	sawfish	primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout

English > *sawfish*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout.
Member of	Pristidae, family Pristidae	large primitive rays with elongated snouts
Narrower	smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinatus	commonly found in tropical bays and estuaries
Broader	ray	cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside
Spanish	pez sierra, pristiformes
Catalan	peix serra

HyperDic: sawfish