NOUN | animal | surgeonfish | brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail |
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Meaning | brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail. | |
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Member of | Acanthuridae, family Acanthuridae | surgeonfishes |
Narrower | doctorfish, doctor-fish, Acanthurus chirurgus | surgeon fish of the West Indies |
Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
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