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GURNARD
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Irregular inflected form: gurnards
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gurnard" is a kind of...):
scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gurnard"):
Trigla lucerna; tub gurnard; yellow gurnard (a kind of gurnard)
sea robin; searobin (American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuaries)
Holonyms ("gurnard" is a member of...):
family Triglidae; Triglidae (in some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins))
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