A hypothetical or informal term for a fish with a flattened body or saw-like appendage, possibly inspired by the sawfish.
Compound of 'handsaw' and 'fish', creating a descriptive term by analogy to sawfish, which has a long flat snout resembling a saw blade.
This word reveals how humans understand new creatures by comparing them to tools—the actual sawfish earned its name the same way, because its long snout looked like a carpenter's saw to early explorers.
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