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SURGEONFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: surgeonfishes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("surgeonfish" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "surgeonfish"):

Acanthurus chirurgus; doctor-fish; doctorfish (surgeon fish of the West Indies)

Holonyms ("surgeonfish" is a member of...):

Acanthuridae; family Acanthuridae (surgeonfishes)

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