alligatorfish

alligatorfish
/al"i gay'teuhr fish'/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) alligatorfish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) alligatorfishes.
1. a slender marine fish, Aspidophoroides monopterygius, of Atlantic seas, having overlapping plates covering the body.
2. any of several related fishes of the family Agonidae.
[1765-75, Amer.; ALLIGATOR + FISH]

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