NOUN | animal | gurnard | bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom |
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Meaning | bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom. | |
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Member of | Triglidae, family Triglidae | In some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins) |
Narrower | sea robin, searobin | American gurnard |
tub gurnard, yellow gurnard, Trigla lucerna | A kind of gurnard | |
Broader | scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish | fishes having the head armored with bony plates |
Spanish | chicharra, escarcho, trilla |
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