Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various bottom-dwelling, large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae of warm seas, having a lizardlike head.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A ganoid fish of the group of sauroids.
- n. A fish of the genus Synodus, of which there are several species, as the sandpike, S. fœtens, found from Cape Cod southward. S. lucioceps occurs on the Californian and Mexican coasts.
Wiktionary
- n. Any member of the family Synodontidae of aulopiform fish.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Any of several mostly tropical marine scopeloid fish of the family
Synodontidae having large mouths in lizardlike heads, especially the inshore lizardfish (Synodus foetens syn. Synodus poeyi) of Mideastern and Southern United States and West Indies; -- sometimes calledsand pike .
WordNet 3.0
- n. tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
Etymologies
- lizard + fish (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Our patience was rewarded by getting a close look at some blue-spotted stingrays, a turtle and a huge lizardfish.”
“Boat Division Most Exotic: Gerard Orlandi, lizardfish”
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