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Anabas
noun · 78% connection
A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Belemnite
noun · 78% connection
A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinaril…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Billfish
noun · 78% connection
The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Cap
verb · 78% connection
To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Cobia
noun · 78% connection
An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Coccosteus
noun · 78% connection
An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Conical
adjective · 78% connection
Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Cop
noun · 78% connection
A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Dorado
noun · 78% connection
A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Embiotocoid
noun · 78% connection
One of a family of fishes (Embiotocidae) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Fierasfer
noun · 78% connection
A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Goggler
noun · 78% connection
A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Ichthyornis
noun · 78% connection
An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebrae, and sha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Ladyfish
noun · 78% connection
A large, handsome oceanic fish (Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, Frenc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Langya
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Large
superl. · 78% connection
Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Lates
noun · 78% connection
A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (Lates Niloticus) inhabits the Nile, and another (L. calcarifer) is found in the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
Lernaeacea
n. pl. · 78% connection
A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are act…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, small, oceanic, fishes, remarkable.
