surgeonfishes

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A form of surgeonfish — Any of many species of reef-dwelling fishes, most of them brightly coloured, of the family Acanthuridae. They bear erectile, scalpel-like, dangerously sharp spines on either side of the caudal peduncle.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of surgeonfish
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