HyperDic: butterfly_fish

English > 1 sense of the expression butterfly fish:
NOUNanimalbutterfly fishsmall usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins
English > butterfly fish: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningsmall usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide / worldwide.
Member ofChaetodontidae, family Chaetodontidaebutterfly fishes
NarrowerangelfishA butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus
chaetodonAny fish of the genus Chaetodon
rock beauty, Holocanthus tricolorgold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil
Broaderpercoid fish, percoid, percoideanAny of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

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