GURNARD (gurnards)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: gurnards   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does gurnard mean? 

• GURNARD (noun)
  The noun GURNARD has 1 sense:

1. bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom

  Familiarity information: GURNARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GURNARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gurnard" is a kind of...):

scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gurnard"):

Trigla lucerna; tub gurnard; yellow gurnard (a kind of gurnard)

sea robin; searobin (American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuaries)

Holonyms ("gurnard" is a member of...):

family Triglidae; Triglidae (in some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins))