lepisosteus osseus

English Thesaurus

1. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	ganoid, ganoid fish,
definition	:	primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus lepisosteus, lepisosteus,
definition	:	type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars (noun.animal)