gurnard : Idioms & Phrases

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Flying gurnard

  • noun tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins
    flying robin; butterflyfish.
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  • (Zoöl.), a species of gurnard of the genus Cephalacanthus or Dactylopterus, with very large pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying fish, but not for so great a distance. Three species are known; that of the Atlantic is Cephalacanthus volitans.
Webster 1913

Plyling gurnard

  • . See under Flying.
Webster 1913

tub gurnard

  • noun a kind of gurnard
    tub gurnard; Trigla lucerna.
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yellow gurnard

  • noun a kind of gurnard
    tub gurnard; Trigla lucerna.
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