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English noun: triggerfish

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


Broader (hypernym)plectognath, plectognath fish


Narrower (hyponym)Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwench, oldwife, queen triggerfish


Member meronymBalistidae, family Balistidae









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