pine-cone fish
noun
Any of several small, oval marine fishes constituting the Indo-Pacific family Monocentridae, which are armoured with large heavy scales and have light organs on the lower jaw.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Edward George Boulenger (1888–1946).
- palaeozoogeographical
- palaeozoogeography
- palaeozoological
- palaeozoologist
- palaeozoology
- palaestra
- palaestrian
- palaestric
- palaetiological
- palaetiology
- palaeëncephalic
- palaeëncephalon
- palafite
- palafitte
- palagi
- palagonite
- palagonite tuff
- palagonitic
- palagonitisation
- palagonitised
- palagonitization
- palagonitized
- Palaic
- Palaiologan
- Palaiologian