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payara

payara noun: hydrolycus scomberoides, a Venezuelan gamefish with two long fangs protruding from the lower jaw.

Noun

payara (plural payaras or payara)

  1. Hydrolycus scomberoides, a Venezuelan gamefish with two long fangs protruding from the lower jaw.
    • In his career as a producer and host of hunting and fishing shows for cable television, Trevor Gowdy has tangled with a wide range of trophy game fish, including 1,000-pound hammerheads in the Florida Keys, giant stingrays off the coast of Thailand and razor-toothed payara below Venezuela’s Uraima...2008 June 21, Peter Kaminsky, “Taking His Cue From the Fish”, in New York Times

Forms of payara

pluralpayaras
pluralpayara

Questions about payara

What does payara mean?
Payara means hydrolycus scomberoides, a Venezuelan gamefish with two long fangs protruding from the lower jaw.
What part of speech is payara?
Payara is a noun.
What is the plural of payara?
The plural of payara is payaras.

Words near payara in the dictionary

  1. Payans
  2. payao
  3. payaos
  4. Payapa
  5. Payar
  6. payara
  7. payaras
  8. payasam
  9. payasams
  10. Payatas
  11. Payavan

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