noun
tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
• Syn: ↑plectognath
• Hypernyms: ↑spiny-finned fish, ↑acanthopterygian
• Hyponyms:
↑triggerfish, ↑filefish, ↑boxfish, ↑trunkfish, ↑puffer, ↑pufferfish, ↑blowfish, ↑globefish, ↑spiny puffer, ↑ocean sunfish, ↑sunfish, ↑mola, ↑headfish
• Member Holonyms: ↑Plectognathi, ↑order Plectognathi, ↑order Tetraodontiformes
Useful english dictionary. 2012.