Surgeonfish

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  • noun. Any of various brightly colored tropical marine fishes of the family Acanthuridae, having a laterally compressed body with one or more sharp erectile spines near the base of the tail, and often kept in home aquariums.
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  • noun. Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae, that have an erect spine near the tail
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  • noun. brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail