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UK
/ɡˈɜːnɑːd/
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NOUN
- bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom
How To Use gurnard In A Sentence
- The tope work around the rising edges and base of these banks scaring up dabs, whiting and gurnards that hug the sand waiting for food to be brought to them by the tide.
- For example trevally, tarakihi or gurnard- as many or few different kinds as you fancy. Fish soup
- We found a multitude of interesting subjects - flying gurnards and dragonets, strange octopuses and rainbow coloured nudibranchs, and even several different kinds of frogfish.
- We found pygmy and full-sized seahorses, flying gurnards with their comically large pectoral fins, rare juvenile finger dragonets with bright blue anal fins, and a trio of spectacular yellow and white harlequin ghost pipefish.
- Dine on a menu of pickled rollmops, grilled gurnard fillet and ginger three ways pudding, then toast Charles Dickens with a heady alcoholic punch. Evening Standard - Home
- Even though this rig is especially good for gurnards, it also proves superbly successful for dabs, plaice, megrim, even small turbot and brill, also haddock, cod and whiting.
- Joined a fishing tour to Waterhouse Tasmania at Easter 2010. We caught plenty of flatheads, gurnards, pikes, kingfish, squids and Katy caught a gummy shark!
- But the other three were in the Amber Concerns list : trevally, tarakihi and gurnard. Fish
- Stay at Lembeh Resort lembehresort.com, grab your underwater camera and follow your dive master as he points out the weird and the wonderful: frogfish, ornate ghost pipefish, flying gurnards and devil scorpionfish. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- For an Anglicised version of this curry, use firm-fleshed fish with a good bony head such as black bream, grey mullet and gurnard, to help make the stock rich.