triggerfish

/ˌtrɪgərˈfɪʃ/

Definitions of triggerfish

1. noun

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

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

   tropical Atlantic fish

   type of:

   plectognath, plectognath fish

   tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines