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surgeonfish

DEFINITIONS OF: surgeonfish

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n brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail

Types:
Acanthurus chirurgus, doctor-fish, doctorfish
surgeon fish of the West Indies
Type of:
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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