LEATHERFISH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes

Synonyms:

leatherfish; leatherjacket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

filefish (narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine)

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

genus Monocanthus; Monocanthus (type genus of the Monocanthidae)

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