HyperDic: plectognath

English > 1 sense of the word plectognath:
NOUNanimalplectognath, plectognath fishtropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
English > plectognath: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningTropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines.
Synonymplectognath fish
Member ofPlectognathi, order Plectognathi, order Tetraodontiformesboxfishes
Narrowerboxfish, trunkfishAny of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
filefishNarrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
ocean sunfish, sunfish, mola, headfishAmong the largest bony fish
puffer, pufferfish, blowfish, globefishAny of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe
spiny pufferpuffers having rigid or erectile spines
triggerfishAny of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
Broaderspiny-finned fish, acanthopterygianA teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
Spanishplectognato
Catalanplectògnat

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