Dory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small, narrow, flatbottom fishing boat with high sides and a sharp prow.
  • n. John Dory.
  • n. See walleye.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
  • n. A small flat bottomed boat used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A European fish. See doree, and john doree.
  • n. The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also doré. See Pike perch.
  • n. A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A popular name of the acanthopterygious fish Zeus faber, the type of the family Zeidæ.
  • n. A local name in some parts of the United States and Canada, especially along Lake Michigan, of Stizostedion vitreum, the wall-eyed pikeperch.
  • n. A small boat; especially, a small flat-bottomed boat used in sea-fisheries, in which to go out from a larger vessel to catch fish.
  • n. An Australian fish, Zeus australis, of the family Zeidæ, the Australasian representative of Zeus faber, the European ‘John-dory.’
  • n. A broad-bodied, rough-scaled, bass-like fish, Histiopterus recurvirostris.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled
  • n. pike-like freshwater perches
  • n. marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
  • Cross Reference
    Variant
    doree    john doree    Dore    pike perch   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Corey    Corrie    Cory    Dorey    Dorrie    Florey    Florrie    Flory    Gorey    Korey   
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