BUTTERFLY FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does butterfly fish mean? 

• BUTTERFLY FISH (noun)
  The noun BUTTERFLY FISH has 1 sense:

1. small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide

  Familiarity information: BUTTERFLY FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTTERFLY FISH (noun)

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Meaning:

Small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("butterfly fish" 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 "butterfly fish"):

chaetodon (any fish of the genus Chaetodon)

angelfish (a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus)

Holocanthus tricolor; rock beauty (gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil)

Holonyms ("butterfly fish" is a member of...):

Chaetodontidae; family Chaetodontidae (butterfly fishes)