parrotfish

English

Alternative forms

  • parrot-fish

Etymology

From parrot +‎ fish.

Noun

parrotfish (plural parrotfishes or parrotfish)

  1. 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.

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