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PARROTFISH (parrotfishes)
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Irregular inflected form: parrotfishes
Dictionary entry overview: What does parrotfish mean?
• PARROTFISH (noun)
The noun PARROTFISH has 1 sense:
1. gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
Familiarity information: PARROTFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
parrotfish; polly fish; pollyfish
Hypernyms ("parrotfish" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Holonyms ("parrotfish" is a member of...):
family Scaridae; Scaridae (parrotfishes)
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