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Butterflyfish

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Noun

1. butterflyfish, flying gurnard, flying robin

tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Butterflyfish

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noun
any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
See also angelfish (sense 1)

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Butterflyfish

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nounWord forms: plural ˈbutterˌflyˌfish or ˈbutterˌflyˌfishes
any of a percoid family (Chaetodontidae) of small, brightly colored, usually yellow, tropical reef fishes
: also written butterfly fish

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Butterflyfish

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n.
1. Any of various small tropical marine fishes of the family Chaetodontidae, having a laterally compressed body with bright colors and patterns.
2. Any of various fishes with broad winglike fins.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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