noun
small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
• Hypernyms: ↑scorpaenoid, ↑scorpaenoid fish
• Hyponyms: ↑pogge, ↑armed bullhead, ↑Agonus cataphractus, ↑alligatorfish, ↑Aspidophoroides monopterygius
• Member Holonyms: ↑Agonidae, ↑family Agonidae
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noun also sea poker : a fish of the family Agonidae — see pogge
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sea poacher noun
The pogge
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Main Entry: ↑sea
Useful english dictionary. 2012.