PERISTEDION MINIATUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Sea robins having bony scutes on the body and barbels on the chin; found mostly on the continental slope

Synonyms:

armored sea robin; armored searobin; Peristedion miniatum

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Peristedion miniatum" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Peristedion miniatum" is a member of...):

genus Peristedion; Peristedion (in some classifications the type genus of the subfamily Peristediinae: armored sea robins)

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