payara

plural payaras

1. Hydrolycus scomberoides, a Venezuelan gamefish with two long fangs protruding from the lower jaw.

   1 more example

   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 Falls.

   2008 June 21, Peter Kaminsky, “Taking His Cue From the Fish”, in New York Times