English > plectognath: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines. |
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| Synonym | plectognath fish |
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| Member of | Plectognathi, order Plectognathi, order Tetraodontiformes | boxfishes |
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| Narrower | boxfish, trunkfish | Any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates |
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| filefish | Narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine |
| ocean sunfish, sunfish, mola, headfish | Among the largest bony fish |
| puffer, pufferfish, blowfish, globefish | Any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe |
| spiny puffer | puffers having rigid or erectile spines |
| triggerfish | Any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin |
| Broader | spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian | A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
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| Spanish | plectognato |
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| Catalan | plectògnat |
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