plectognath fish

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   tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines

   Synonymsplectognath

   Broaderspiny-finned fish

   Narrowertriggerfishfilefishboxfishpufferspiny pufferocean sunfish

   Part ofPlectognathi

Questions about plectognath fish

What does plectognath fish mean?

plectognath fish means "tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines".

What is another word for plectognath fish?

Close synonyms include plectognath. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plectognath fish a common word?

plectognath fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.