poisson-scie
French, noun\pwa.sɔ̃.si\
poisson-scie is spelled P-O-I-S-S-O-N-S-C-I-E (11 letters). Poisson-scie is a French masculine noun meaning “sawfish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poisson pristiforme de la classe des chondrichthyens, au corps et à la tête plats, à 5 paires de fentes…”.
What does poisson-scie mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesawfish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Poisson pristiforme de la classe des chondrichthyens, au corps et à la tête plats, à 5 paires de fentes branchiales ventrales, caractérisé principalement par son rostre proéminent, bordé de dents de chaque côté, à l’apparence d’une scie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of poisson-scie
- poissons-scies plural
- scie
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce poisson-scie?
- \pwa.sɔ̃.si\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to poisson-scie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.