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).
- bit error rate
- bite-size
- bite-sized
- bite someone's head off
- bite something back
- bite the big one
- bite the bullet
- bite the dust
- bite the hand that feeds one
- bitewing
- Bithynia
- biting
- bitingly
- biting midge
- bitmap
- BITNET
- bit of fluff (or skirt or stuff)
- bit of rough
- bitonal
- bitonality
- kerchief
- kerchiefed
- ker-ching
- kereru
- Keres