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Sawfish

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis They have a sharklike form but are more nearly allied to the rays The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey

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