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Definition of Hexagrammos
1. Noun. Type genus of the Hexagrammidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Hexagrammidae, Hexagrammidae
Member holonyms: Hexagrammos Decagrammus, Kelp Greenling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexagrammos
Literary usage of Hexagrammos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The sexes are quite unlike in color, the males anteriorly blue spots, the females
speckled with red or brown. hexagrammos ..."
2. ... The Blood-vascular System of the Loricati, the Mailcheeked Fishes by William Fitch Allen (1905)
"In hexagrammos the coeliac branches off from the ... In hexagrammos only does
the intestinal artery,.,) arise from the coeliac as in Ophiodon; ..."
3. Bulletin by United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution (1900)
"Skeleton of hexagrammos decagrammus 1867 A mail-cheeked tish from northern waters,
... Atkinson from a specimen in LS Jr. Univ. Mns. 677. hexagrammos ..."