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butterfly_fish

butterfly fish

See also: butterflyfish

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Noun

butterfly fish (plural butterfly fish or butterfly fishes)

  1. Any fish of the family Chaetodontidae.
  2. Pantodon buchholzi, a small brown fish of western African streams, often found in aquariums.
  3. The butterfly cod (Pterois volitans).
  4. The ocellated blenny (Opisthocentrus ocellatus).
  5. The flying gurnard (Dactyloptena orientalis).
  6. Exocoetus volitans, a flying fish of the Atlantic.
  7. A chiton, a mollusc of the class Polyplacophora.
  8. Any of several brightly colored fishes

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