gurnard

/ˈgʌrnərd/

Other forms: gurnards

Definitions of gurnard

1. noun

   bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom
   types:

   Trigla lucerna, tub gurnard, yellow gurnard

   a kind of gurnard

   sea robin, searobin

   American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuaries

   Prionotus carolinus, northern sea robin

   large searobin; found from Nova Scotia to Florida

   Peristedion miniatum, armored sea robin, armored searobin

   sea robins having bony scutes on the body and barbels on the chin; found mostly on the continental slope

   type of:

   scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish

   fishes having the head armored with bony plates