| NOUN | animal | triggerfish | any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin |
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| Meaning | Any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin. | |
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| Member of | Balistidae, family Balistidae | triggerfishes |
| Narrower | queen triggerfish, Bessy cerca, oldwench, oldwife, Balistes vetula | Tropical Atlantic fish |
| Broader | plectognath, plectognath fish | Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines |
| Spanish | balistidae | |
| Catalan | balístid | |
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