DORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dory mean? 

• DORY (noun)
  The noun DORY has 3 senses:

1. a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled

2. pike-like freshwater perches

3. marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters

  Familiarity information: DORY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dinghy; dory; rowboat

Hypernyms ("dory" is a kind of...):

small boat (a boat that is small)

Meronyms (parts of "dory"):

oarlock; peg; pin; rowlock; thole; tholepin (a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing)

cross thwart; thwart (a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dory"):

rowing boat (a rowboat)

wherry (light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pike-like freshwater perches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dory; jack salmon; Stizostedion vitreum; walleye; walleyed pike

Hypernyms ("dory" is a kind of...):

pike-perch; pike perch (any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dory"):

blue pickerel; blue pike; blue pikeperch; blue walleye; Strizostedion vitreum glaucum (variety inhabiting the Great Lakes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dory" 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 "dory"):

John Dory; Zeus faber (European dory)

Holonyms ("dory" is a member of...):

family Zeidae; Zeidae (a family of fish in the order Zeomorphi)