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SEA POKER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
Synonyms:
poacher; sea poacher; sea poker
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sea poker" is a kind of...):
scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea poker"):
Agonus cataphractus; armed bullhead; pogge (northern Atlantic sea poacher)
alligatorfish; Aspidophoroides monopterygius (small very elongate sea poachers)
Holonyms ("sea poker" is a member of...):
Agonidae; family Agonidae (poachers)
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