plectognathous

• a word derived from plectognath.
  plectognath

  adjective

  belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.

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plectognathous

A plectognathous fish, covered with spines, which has the power of inflating its body till it becomes almost globular.

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

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