单词 | plectognath fish |
释义 | plectognath fish (once / 1181932 pages) n WORD FAMILY plectognath fish n tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines Syn|Hypo|Hyper plectognath triggerfish any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin filefishnarrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine boxfish, trunkfishany of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates blowfish, globefish, puffer, pufferfishany of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers spiny pufferpuffers having rigid or erectile spines headfish, mola, ocean sunfish, sunfishamong the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwench, oldwife, queen triggerfishtropical Atlantic fish leatherfish, leatherjacketany of several brightly colored tropical filefishes Lactophrys quadricornis, cowfishtrunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish, porcupinefishspines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters Diodon holocanthus, balloonfishsimilar to but smaller than porcupinefish burrfishany of several fishes having rigid flattened spines Mola lanceolata, sharptail molacaudal fin has a central projection acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
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