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TRIGGERFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: triggerfishes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting animals

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

plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)

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

Balistes vetula; Bessy cerca; oldwench; oldwife; queen triggerfish (tropical Atlantic fish)

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

Balistidae; family Balistidae (triggerfishes)

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