FILEFISH (filefishes)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: filefishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does filefish mean? 

• FILEFISH (noun)
  The noun FILEFISH has 1 sense:

1. narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILEFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)

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

leatherfish; leatherjacket (any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes)

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

Balistidae; family Balistidae (triggerfishes)