Parrotfish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various brightly colored tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae, having fused teeth resembling a parrot's beak.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. Any of several gaudy tropical fishes of the family Scaridae having parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A name given to various fishes, principally of the families Labridæ and Scaridæ, on account of their colors or the shape of their jaws.
  • n. A name given in Australia and elsewhere to Scarus pseudolabrus: called in the Australian tropics parrot-perch. In Victoria and Tasmania the name is also given to several species of Labrichthys. In New Zealand, the parrot-fish is Pseudolabrus miles psittacula.
  • n. Same as blue groper.
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  • n. gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    percoid    percoid fish    percoidean   
    Cross Reference
    red parrot-fish    rainbow parrot-fish   
    Variant
    parrotfishes   
    Synonym
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    pollyfish   
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