BESSY CERCA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical Atlantic fish

Synonyms:

Balistes vetula; Bessy cerca; oldwench; oldwife; queen triggerfish

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Bessy cerca" is a kind of...):

triggerfish (any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin)

Holonyms ("Bessy cerca" is a member of...):

Balistes; genus Balistes (type genus of the Balistidae)

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