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Triggerfish

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Noun

1. triggerfish

any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Triggerfish

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noun plural -fish or -fishes
any plectognath fish of the family Balistidae, of tropical and temperate seas. They have a compressed body with erectile spines in the first dorsal fin

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Triggerfish

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nounWord forms: plural ˈtriggerˌfish or ˈtriggerˌfishes
any of various brightly colored tropical fishes (family Balistidae) of the same order (Tetraodontiformes) as puffers, having a prominent first dorsal fin with two or three spines

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Triggerfish

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n. pl. triggerfish or trig·ger·fish·es
Any of various brightly colored fishes of the family Balistidae of warm coastal waters, having a roundish body and an erectile spine on the anterior dorsal fin that locks upright when the fish is threatened.

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