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QUEEN TRIGGERFISH

Dictionary entry overview: What does queen triggerfish mean?

• QUEEN TRIGGERFISH (noun)
The noun QUEEN TRIGGERFISH has 1 sense:

1. tropical Atlantic fish

Familiarity information: QUEEN TRIGGERFISH used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• QUEEN TRIGGERFISH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Tropical Atlantic fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Balistes vetula; Bessy cerca; oldwench; oldwife; queen triggerfish

Hypernyms ("queen triggerfish" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("queen triggerfish" is a member of...):

Balistes; genus Balistes (type genus of the Balistidae)

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