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dorsum |
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dory
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dory
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dory has 3 senses
- dory(n = noun.artifact) dinghy, rowboat - a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled; Array has parts: oarlock, peg, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin, cross thwart, thwart
- dory(n = noun.animal) jack salmon, stizostedion vitreum, walleye, walleyed pike - pike-like freshwater perches; Array is a kind of pike-perch, pike perch
- dory(n = noun.animal) Array - marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters; Array is a member of family zeidae, zeidae
has particulars: rowing boat, wherry
is a kind of small boat
has particulars: blue pickerel, blue pike, blue pikeperch, blue walleye, strizostedion vitreum glaucum
has particulars: john dory, zeus faber
is a kind of acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dory, n. (pl. -ies) any of various marine fish having a compressed body and flat head, esp. the John Dory, used as food.
dory, n. (pl. -ies) US a flat-bottomed fishing-boat with high sides.
Etymology
Miskito d{oacute}ri dugout
ROGET THESAURUS
dory
Ship
N ship, vessel, sail, craft, bottom, navy, marine, fleet, flotilla, shipping, man of war, transport, tender, storeship, merchant ship, merchantman, packet, liner, whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter, fishing boat, pilot boat, trawler, hulk, yacht, baggala, floating hotel, floating palace, ocean greyhound, ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig, brigantine, barkantine, schooner, topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner, chasse-maree, sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss, sailer, sailing vessel, windjammer, steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruiseship, ship of the line, mail steamer, paddle steamer, screw steamer, tug, line of steamers, destroyer, cruiser, frigate, landing ship, LST, aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier, submarine, submersible, atomic submarine, boat, pinnace, launch, life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat, swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher, dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot, shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret, eight oar, four oar, pair oar, randan, outrigger, float, raft, pontoon, prame, iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht, catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel, felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe, galley, galleyfoist, bilander, dogger, hooker, howker, argosy, carack, galliass, galleon, polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow, dahabeah, nuggah, kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue, quadrireme, trireme, stern-wheeler, wanigan, wangan, wharf boat, balloon, airship, aeroplane, biplane, monoplane, triplane, hydroplane, aerodrome, air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin, aerostat, Montgolfier, kite, parachute, jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane, corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation, airline, common carrier, fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane, supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft, afloat, aboard, on board, on ship board, hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard, hard a weather.
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