surgeonfish
Noun
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Noun
surgeonfish (plural surgeonfishes or surgeonfish)
- Any of many species of reef-dwelling fishes, most of them brightly coloured, of the family Acanthuridae. They are named "surgeonfish" because they bear erectile, scalpel-like, dangerously sharp spines on either side of the caudal peduncle.
- French: poisson-chirurgien
- German: Doktorfisch
- Italian: pesce chirurgo
- Russian: рыба-хирург
- Spanish: acantúrido, pez cirujano
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