plectognath

(ˈplɛktɒɡˌnæθ) n (Animals) any spiny-finned marine fish of the mainly tropical order Plectognathi (or Tetraodontiformes), having a small mouth, strong teeth, and small gill openings: includes puffers, triggerfish, trunkfish, sunfish, etcadj (Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the order Plectognathi [C19: via New Latin from Greek plektos twisted + gnathos jaw]

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plectognath - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spinesplectognath fishacanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible raysorder Plectognathi, order Tetraodontiformes, Plectognathi - boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; pufferstriggerfish - any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal finfilefish - narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spineboxfish, trunkfish - any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony platesglobefish, puffer, pufferfish, blowfish - any 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 puffersspiny puffer - puffers having rigid or erectile spinesheadfish, mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish - among 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

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noun tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines

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