plectognath
English Thesaurus
1. tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines (noun.animal)
| hyponym | : | triggerfish, |
| definition | : | any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | filefish, |
| definition | : | narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | boxfish, trunkfish, |
| definition | : | any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | blowfish, globefish, puffer, pufferfish, |
| definition | : | any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | spiny puffer, |
| definition | : | puffers having rigid or erectile spines (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | headfish, mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish, |
| definition | : | among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters (noun.animal) |
Visual ArtiKata
Explore plectognath in ArtiKata.com >