NOUN | animal | sea poacher, poacher, sea poker | small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates |
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Meaning | small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters. | |
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Synonyms | poacher, sea poker | |
Member of | Agonidae, family Agonidae | poachers |
Narrower | alligatorfish, Aspidophoroides monopterygius | small very elongate sea poachers |
pogge, armed bullhead, Agonus cataphractus | Northern Atlantic sea poacher | |
Broader | scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish | fishes having the head armored with bony plates |
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