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- Japanese · derived from佐伊羅
- English todaysaury
Eggcorn of Japanese 佐伊羅 (saira). By surface analysis, -saur (“dinosaur or other extinct reptile”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
saury
Today it means: A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins. Full definition →
Japanese 佐伊羅