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    SEA POACHER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    poacher; sea poacher; sea poker

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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)

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