Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes of the family Monacanthidae, having a flat body, a long dorsal spine, and rough skin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any plectognathous fish of the family Balistidæ: so called from the roughly granular skin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.
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- noun Any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very
slender bodies.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some were truly incredible — from the impossibly tiny-mouthed filefish (No. 32), to the blue parrotfish (No. 35) that looked like wet sapphire, to the 2-foot-long remora (No. 34) that Adler insisted could adhere to my belly and hang there (it did, and the sensation was like having a vacuum-cleaner hose with a thousand tiny needles at its end stuck to your skin).
The Mid-Life Slam 2009
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Between 1955 and 1975, there were observed fluctuations in catch for yellowtail, horse mackerel, filefish, parrot bass and sea robin, in Sagami Bay.
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Although this wreck is relatively new, it has already attracted numerous species of fish including, squirrelfish and filefish, along with visits from morays and occasional reef sharks.
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Although this wreck is relatively new, it has already attracted numerous species of fish including, squirrelfish and filefish, along with visits from morays and occasional reef sharks.
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Parrotfish, filefish and sergeant major fish prowled as starfish lurked on the bottom.
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