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SEA POKER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

poacher; sea poacher; sea poker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea poker" 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 poker"):

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

alligatorfish; Aspidophoroides monopterygius (small very elongate sea poachers)

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

Agonidae; family Agonidae (poachers)

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