Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having naked teeth; specifically, pertaining to or having the characters of the Gymnodontidæ.
- noun A gymnodont fish; one of the Gymnodontidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, as the diodonts and tetradonts. See
bur fish ,globefish ,diodon .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology One of a group of
plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates on each jaw.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek naked + tooth.
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