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Plectognath

Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.

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Acanthopterygian 76% connected

Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.

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Boxfish 76% connected

The trunkfish.

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Filefish 76% connected

Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which i…

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Globefish 76% connected

A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less…

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Headfish 76% connected

The sunfish (Mola).

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Mola 76% connected

See Sunfish, 1.

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Puffer 76% connected

One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.

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Sunfish 76% connected

A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

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Trunkfish 76% connected

Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with…

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