saratoga
See also: Saratoga
English edit
Etymology edit
Origin unknown. Perhaps a mispronunciation of New Latin Ceratodus (“an extinct genus of lungfish”), which is from Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”).
Noun edit
saratoga (plural saratogas)
- Either of two species of osteoglossid fish of the genus Scleropages, native to northeastern Australia.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 49:
- They tell us that the fresh waters at Hainin must have been substantial, for they included the remains of a large predatorial fish known as a bonytongue, or saratoga.