Definition of plectognaths Plectognaths
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What does plectognaths mean?
Wiktionary 
- plectognaths (Noun)
Plural of plectognath.
Part of speech
🔤- plectognaths, noun, plural of plectognath.
WordNet
NounPlural: plectognaths |
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| plectognath - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines | ||
| plectognath fish | ||
| acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | ||
| order plectognathi, order tetraodontiformes, plectognathi boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers | ||
| triggerfish any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin | ||
| filefish narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine | ||
| boxfish, trunkfish any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | ||
| globefish, blowfish, puffer, pufferfish delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | ||
| spiny puffer puffers having rigid or erectile spines | ||
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Wiktionary
- plectognath (Noun)
Any fish of the order Tetraodontiformes.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- plectognath (a.)
Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi. - plectognath (n.)
One of the Plectognathi.
Part of speech
🔤- plectognath, noun, singular of plectognaths.
