| dragonet | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. dragonet | small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America. |
| ~ acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish | a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays. |
| ~ callionymidae, family callionymidae | dragonets. |
| spiny-finned fish | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish | a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays. |
| ~ squirrelfish | very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark. |
| ~ anomalops, flashlight fish | fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico. |
| ~ flashlight fish, photoblepharon palpebratus | fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye. |
| ~ dory | marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters. |
| ~ capros aper, boarfish | fish with a projecting snout. |
| ~ boarfish | fish with large eyes and long snouts. |
| ~ stickleback, prickleback | small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research. |
| ~ teleost, teleost fish, teleostan | a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei. |
| ~ batfish | bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins. |
| ~ allmouth, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, lophius americanus, lotte, monkfish, angler | fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey. |
| ~ opsanus tau, toadfish | bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth. |
| ~ frogfish | fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout. |
| ~ sargassum fish | small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum. |
| ~ acanthopterygii, superorder acanthopterygii | teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays. |
| ~ percoid, percoid fish, percoidean | any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes. |
| ~ remora, suckerfish, sucking fish | marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects. |
| ~ silverside, silversides | small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States. |
| ~ barracuda | any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth. |
| ~ launce, sand eel, sand lance, sand launce | very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches. |
| ~ dragonet | small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America. |
| ~ scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish | fishes having the head armored with bony plates. |
| ~ plectognath, plectognath fish | tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines. |
| ~ flatfish | any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side. |
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