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TRIGGERFISH
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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
Classified under:
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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