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Definition of Scomberesox
1. Noun. A genus of Scomberesocidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Scomberesocidae, Family Scombresocidae, Scomberesocidae, Scombresocidae
Member holonyms: Billfish, Saury, Scomberesox Saurus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scomberesox
Literary usage of Scomberesox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)
"Esq., sent through the Smithsonian Institution, USA The following Communications
were read :— 1. Notices of the Saury Pike (Scomberesox Sauris, Penn. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)
"Notices of the Saury Pike (Scomberesox Sauris, Penn.), taken in the Firth of Forth.
(Specimens were exhibited.) Mr RF Logan referred to the immense influx ..."
3. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1866)
"Brit. Fish. Brit. Fish. ip 394, and 2nd edit. ip 446. Scomberesox ... 276. fig.
1ll (very bad). Young (2-3 inches long). Scomberesox ..."
4. First- Second Annual Report Upon the Natural History and Geology of the by Ezekiel Holmes, Charles Henry Hitchcock (1862)
"Scomberesox scutellatus, Les. Bill fish. The Bill fish is a very handsome species,
with a body shaped like that of a mackerel, and the head, or rather snout ..."
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