Gym″no‐dont (jĭm″nō̍‐dŏnt), n. [Gr. γυμνόσ naked + οδοὔσ, οδὄντοσ, tooth.] (Zoöl.) One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, as the diodonts and tetradonts. See Bur fish, Globefish, Diodon.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.