surgeonfish

Definitions of surgeonfish
  1. noun
    brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
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    types:
    Acanthurus chirurgus, doctor-fish, doctorfish
    surgeon fish of the West Indies
    type of:
    percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
    any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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