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sawfishes

sawfishes is the plural of sawfish.

Meaning of sawfish

Noun

sawfish (plural sawfishes or sawfish)

  1. Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.
    • 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.2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, Sawfish, entry in International Wildlife Encyclopedia, Volume 16: Rifleman - sea slug, page 2238

Phrases with sawfishes

Questions about sawfishes

What is sawfishes the plural of?
Sawfishes is the plural of sawfish.

Words near sawfishes in the dictionary

  1. sawer
  2. sawers
  3. sawest
  4. saweth
  5. sawfish
  6. sawfishes
  7. sawflies
  8. sawfly
  9. Sawford
  10. Sawfords
  11. sawgrass

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