Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.] (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}. [1913 Webster]
lizardfish \lizardfish\, lizard fish \lizard fish\n. (Zool.) Any of several mostly tropical marine scopeloid fish of the family {Synodontidae} having large mouths in lizardlike heads, especially the {inshore lizardfish} ({Synodus foetens} syn. {Synodus poeyi}) of Mideastern and Southern United States and West Indies; -- sometimes called {sand pike}. Note: A freshwater perch, the sauger, a different fish, is also called the sand pike. Syn: snakefish. [WordNet 1.5]