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noun • brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes | ||||
| 29% | 9 | A family of small, colorful fishes | ||
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| 24% | 13 | Colorful tropical fishes with sharp spines on their sides | ||
noun • Any of many species of reef-dwelling fishes, most of them brightly coloured, of the family Acanthuridae. They are named "surgeonfish" because they bear erectile, scalpel-like, dangerously sharp spines on either side of the caudal peduncle. | ||||
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