gurnard
noun
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.
gurnards
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pluralof gurnard.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
These were either flying gurnards or kitelike sea robins, whose lips glowed in the dark, at night scrawling fiery streaks in the air before plunging into the murky waters like so many shooting stars.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by F. P. Walter
In Tank 34 are gurnards, fish-gentlemen, with exquisite blue fins, like peacock's feathers.
From Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
