PLECTOGNATH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does plectognath mean? 

• PLECTOGNATH (noun)
  The noun PLECTOGNATH has 1 sense:

1. tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines

  Familiarity information: PLECTOGNATH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLECTOGNATH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

plectognath; plectognath fish

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)