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DAMSELFISH (damselfishes)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does damselfish mean? 

DAMSELFISH (noun)
  The noun DAMSELFISH has 1 sense:

1. small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefsplay

  Familiarity information: DAMSELFISH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DAMSELFISH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

damselfish; demoiselle

Hypernyms ("damselfish" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "damselfish"):

beaugregory; Pomacentrus leucostictus (a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies)

anemone fish (live associated with sea anemones)

Abudefduf saxatilis; sergeant major (large blue-grey black-striped damselfish; nearly worldwide)

Holonyms ("damselfish" is a member of...):

family Pomacentridae; Pomacentridae (damselfishes)


 Context examples 


P. damselae is an opportunistic pathogen that has been isolated from infectious sites in damselfishes, sharks, dolphins, and humans.

(Photobacterium damselae, NCI Thesaurus)



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