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gournet

gournet is the obsolete form of gurnard.

Meaning of gurnard

Noun

gurnard (plural gurnard or gurnards)

  1. Any of various marine fish of the family Triglidae that have a large armored head and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom.
  2. (broadly) Other fish with appearance like that of members of family Triglidae, such as certain of those in families Dactylopteridae, Peristediidae, and Scorpaenidae.

See all 3 meanings of gurnard

Forms of gournet

pluralgournets

Questions about gournet

What is gournet the obsolete form of?
Gournet is the obsolete form of gurnard.

Words near gournet in the dictionary

  1. gourmetlike
  2. gourmets
  3. gourmettish
  4. Gournay-en-Bray
  5. Gournelos
  6. gournet
  7. gournets
  8. Gouro
  9. Gourock
  10. Gourock ham
  11. Gourock hams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gournet (page history and authors); gurnard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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