SEA POACHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea poacher mean? 

• SEA POACHER (noun)
  The noun SEA POACHER has 1 sense:

1. small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters

  Familiarity information: SEA POACHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA POACHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

poacher; sea poacher; sea poker

Hypernyms ("sea poacher" is a kind of...):

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

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

Agonus cataphractus; armed bullhead; pogge (northern Atlantic sea poacher)

alligatorfish; Aspidophoroides monopterygius (small very elongate sea poachers)

Holonyms ("sea poacher" is a member of...):

Agonidae; family Agonidae (poachers)