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.