Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dory
3 senses of dory
Sense 1
dinghy, dory, rowboat -- (a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled)
=> small boat -- (a boat that is small)
Sense 2
walleye, walleyed pike, jack salmon, dory, Stizostedion vitreum -- (pike-like freshwater perches)
=> pike-perch, pike perch -- (any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family)
Sense 3
dory -- (marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters)
=> spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian -- (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)