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Synonyms for saw

a usually pithy and familiar statement expressing an observation or principle generally accepted as wise or true

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Synonyms for saw

a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

cut with a saw

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Adult females possess a strong sawlike ovipositor, which is used to make parallel cuts in the fresh/tender shoots of the host plant; 4a and 4b.
The largetooth sawfish, a popular curio item known for its sawlike snout, was proposed as a federally endangered species on May 7, less than three weeks after massive amounts of oil started gushing into Gulf waters, pointed out George Burgess, a UF ichthyologist and sawfish expert.
(51) On the coast at Yarrabah, near Cairns, the puncture marks were cut 'with a sawlike Yakal leaf till the blood flowed freely from the wound'.
The birds, which live in the South Pacific, use twigs and leaves to make hooks and probes with sawlike edges.
In the South Pacific, New Caledonian crows sculpt twigs into hooked probes that they use to pry out otherwise inaccessible grubs--they make their own "crowbars." The same crows nip the edges of rigid leaves to create sawlike teeth, then shove the barbed tools beneath leaf litter to spear prey.