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Definition of Globefishes
1. globefish [n] - See also: globefish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Globefishes
Literary usage of Globefishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"THE globefishes AND SUNFISHES — Family Unlike as they are in external appearance,
the spine-clad globefishes and the huge flattened sunfishes are referred ..."
2. General Zoology by Arthur Sperry Pearse (1917)
"... and globefishes are more or less spherical in form; the goose-fishes have very
large heads, the sunfishes have large bodies and very small heads; ..."
3. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"... porcupine-fishes, globefishes. and the like. These forms have no separate
teeth, but the jaws are enveloped by an enamel-like covering. ..."
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