gurnard
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gurnard,
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gurnards
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any marine fish of the family Triglidae, having an armored, spiny head and the front part of the pectoral fins modified for crawling on the sea bottom.
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Etymology
Origin of gurnard
1275–1325; Middle English < Old French gornard, probably literally, grunter ≪ Latin grunnīre to grunt
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John Dory, red mullet, gurnard, sardines, anchovies, cuttlefish and squid would all become more common in the North Sea, he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2015
A small Turner watercolour of a gurnard took my breath away: there's almost nothing there on the scrap of paper, yet it's a miraculous invocation of the stolid little fish.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2013
Morrisons has also reported strong sales of fish sourced from Cornwall and Devon, including John Dory, red gurnard and dab.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2012
Also, the gurnard, a fish of the blenny kind, which makes a rumbling noise when struggling to disengage itself on reaching the surface.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
A name for the yellow gurnard among the northern fishermen.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Among the fishes in the first four cases, the visitor should notice the flying gurnards; the sea scorpions, and flying sea scorpions; the paradise fish; and the perches, including the fingered variety.
From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by W. Blanchard Jerrold
We saw, during our visit, a quantity of dried salmon, rock cod, blue dolphins, mackerel, blackfish, skate, conger eels, elephantfish, mullets, soles, parrotfish, leather-jackets, gurnards, hake, flounders, paracutas, and innumerable other varieties.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Edgar Allan Poe
Him, to her joy, Esther perceived—she saw a stack of gurnards on his improvised slab, and in imagination smelt herself frying them.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
Although never found very far from the coast, gurnards descend to depths of several hundred fathoms; and as they are bottom-fish they are caught chiefly by means of the trawl.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
The larger are somewhat like red gurnards, and are said to prey on their smaller cousins, which are also pursued by bonitos, albicores, and dolphins of various species, as well as by numerous sea-birds.
From In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting by John Steeple Davis
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