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QUEEN TRIGGERFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does queen triggerfish mean? 

QUEEN TRIGGERFISH (noun)
  The noun QUEEN TRIGGERFISH has 1 sense:

1. tropical Atlantic fishplay

  Familiarity information: QUEEN TRIGGERFISH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


QUEEN TRIGGERFISH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical Atlantic fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Balistes vetula; Bessy cerca; oldwench; oldwife; queen triggerfish

Hypernyms ("queen triggerfish" is a kind of...):

triggerfish (any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin)

Holonyms ("queen triggerfish" is a member of...):

Balistes; genus Balistes (type genus of the Balistidae)


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