leatherjacket

English Thesaurus

1. tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	grub,
definition	:	a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects (noun.animal)

2. any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	jack,
definition	:	any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus oligoplites, oligoplites,
definition	:	leatherjackets (noun.animal)

3. any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	filefish,
definition	:	narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus monocanthus, monocanthus,
definition	:	type genus of the Monocanthidae (noun.animal)