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surgeonfishes

surgeonfishes is the plural of surgeonfish.

Meaning of surgeonfish

Noun

surgeonfish (plural surgeonfishes or surgeonfish)

  1. Any of many species of reef-dwelling fishes, most of them brightly coloured, of the family Acanthuridae. They bear erectile, scalpel-like, dangerously sharp spines on either side of the caudal peduncle.

Questions about surgeonfishes

What is surgeonfishes the plural of?
Surgeonfishes is the plural of surgeonfish.

Words near surgeonfishes in the dictionary

  1. surgeoncies
  2. surgeoncy
  3. surgeoness
  4. surgeonesses
  5. surgeonfish
  6. surgeonfishes
  7. surgeonless
  8. surgeonlike
  9. surgeonly
  10. surgeonries
  11. surgeonry

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