Parrotfish

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  • noun. Any of various brightly colored tropical marine fishes of the family Scaridae, having fused teeth resembling a parrot's beak.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A name given to various fishes, principally of the families Labridæ and Scaridæ, on account of their colors or the shape of their jaws.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Same as blue groper.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any of several gaudy tropical fishes of the family Scaridae having parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
    • Word Usage
    "The parrotfish should be the national bird of every atoll nation."
    cross-reference
    rainbow parrot-fish  red parrot-fish  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    percoid  percoid fish  percoidean  
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    Synonym
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    pollyfish  
    variant
    parrotfishes  
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