saratoga

See also: Saratoga

English

Etymology

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

saratoga (plural saratogas)

1. 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.