Any of various marine fishes of the families Uranoscopidae, Dactyloscopidae, or Leptoscopidae, having eyes set on the top of the head and…

= uranoscopid, n.

(a) a machine for hoisting stones; (b) a name for the Australian fish Kathetostoma læve, of the family Uranoscopidæ.

New Zealand. Either of two relatively large fishes of the family Uranoscopidae, found in the coastal waters around New Zealand, esp. Kathetostoma giga…