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Surgeonfish

noun
1.
Brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail.





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"Surgeonfish" Quotes from Famous Books



... grunts on which gold and silver mingle their luster with that of ruby and topaz; yellow-tailed gilthead whose flesh is extremely dainty and whose phosphorescent properties give them away in the midst of the waters; porgies tinted orange, with slender tongues; croakers with gold caudal fins; black surgeonfish; four-eyed ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne


Words linked to "Surgeonfish" :   doctorfish, Acanthurus chirurgus, percoidean, percoid, family Acanthuridae, Acanthuridae, doctor-fish, percoid fish


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