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SEA ROBIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuaries
Synonyms:
sea robin; searobin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sea robin" is a kind of...):
gurnard (bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea robin"):
northern sea robin; Prionotus carolinus (large searobin; found from Nova Scotia to Florida)
armored sea robin; armored searobin; Peristedion miniatum (sea robins having bony scutes on the body and barbels on the chin; found mostly on the continental slope)