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SURGEONFISH
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Irregular inflected form: surgeonfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("surgeonfish" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "surgeonfish"):
Acanthurus chirurgus; doctor-fish; doctorfish (surgeon fish of the West Indies)
Holonyms ("surgeonfish" is a member of...):
Acanthuridae; family Acanthuridae (surgeonfishes)
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