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    SEA ROBIN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuariesplay

    Synonyms:

    sea robin; searobin

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    gurnard (bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom)

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

    northern sea robin; Prionotus carolinus (large searobin; found from Nova Scotia to Florida)

    armored sea robin; armored searobin; Peristedion miniatum (sea robins having bony scutes on the body and barbels on the chin; found mostly on the continental slope)

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