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Tripletail

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Noun

1. tripletail

large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tripletail

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noun plural -tail or -tails
any percoid fish of the family Lobotidae, esp Lobotes surinamensis, of brackish waters of SE Asia, having tail-like dorsal and anal fins

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Tripletail

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noun
any of a family (Lobotidae) of percoid fishes that have large, trailing dorsal and anal fins; esp., a large food fish (Lobotes surinamensis) of warm W Atlantic waters

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

Tripletail

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n.
Any of several chiefly marine fishes of the family Lobotidae, especially Lobotes surinamensis of tropical and subtropical waters, having prominent dorsal and anal fins that resemble extra tails.

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