dory

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A small boat; especially, a small flat-bottomed boat used in sea-fisheries, in which to go out from a larger vessel to catch fish.
• noun A popular name of the acanthopterygious fish Zeus faber, the type of the family Zeidæ.
• noun A local name in some parts of the United States and Canada, especially along Lake Michigan, of Stizostedion vitreum, the wall-eyed pikeperch.
• noun An Australian fish, Zeus australis, of the family Zeidæ, the Australasian representative of Zeus faber, the European ‘John-dory.’
• noun A broad-bodied, rough-scaled, bass-like fish, Histiopterus recurvirostris.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
• noun (Zoöl.) A European fish. See doree, and john doree.
• noun (Zoöl.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also doré. See Pike perch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
• noun nautical A small flat bottomed boat used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled
• noun pike-like freshwater perches
• noun marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters