triggerfish

/ˈtrɪgərˌfɪʃ/
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Definitions of triggerfish
  1. noun
    any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
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    types:
    Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwench, oldwife, queen triggerfish
    tropical Atlantic fish
    type of:
    plectognath, plectognath fish
    tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
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