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PLECTOGNATH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
Synonyms:
plectognath; plectognath fish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("plectognath" is a kind of...):
acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plectognath"):
triggerfish (any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin)
filefish (narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine)
boxfish; trunkfish (any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates)
blowfish; globefish; puffer; pufferfish (any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers)
spiny puffer (puffers having rigid or erectile spines)
headfish; mola; ocean sunfish; sunfish (among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters)
Holonyms ("plectognath" is a member of...):
order Plectognathi; order Tetraodontiformes; Plectognathi (boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers)
