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Account
noun · 78% connection
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Balistoid
adjective · 78% connection
Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidae. See Filefish.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Bream
noun · 78% connection
An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pon…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Bur fish
unknown · 78% connection
A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distendin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Cat-salt
noun · 78% connection
A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Cowfish
noun · 78% connection
A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Cuckold
noun · 78% connection
A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Dermis
noun · 78% connection
The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and end…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Diodon
noun · 78% connection
A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Etheostomoid
noun · 78% connection
Any fish of the genus Etheostoma and related genera, allied to the perches; -- also called darter. The etheostomoids are small and oft…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Finback
noun · 78% connection
Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Fish
noun · 78% connection
the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people start…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Floured
p. a. · 78% connection
Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Globefish
noun · 78% connection
A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Grunt
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri),…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Gymnodont
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Killifish
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
Linnet
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plectognath, fish, genera, monacanthus, alutera.
