GYMNODONT

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.