HyperDic: gurnard

English > 1 sense of the word gurnard:
NOUNanimalgurnardbottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom
English > gurnard: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningbottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom.
Member ofTriglidae, family TriglidaeIn some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins)
Narrowersea robin, searobinAmerican gurnard
tub gurnard, yellow gurnard, Trigla lucernaA kind of gurnard
Broaderscorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fishfishes having the head armored with bony plates
Spanishchicharra, escarcho, trilla

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