noun
Meaning 1
Any fish of the family Chaetodontidae.
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butterfly fish
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noun
Meaning 2
Pantodon buchholzi, a small brown fish of western African streams, often found in aquariums.
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noun
Meaning 3
The butterfly cod (Pterois volitans).
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noun
Meaning 4
The ocellated blenny (Opisthocentrus ocellatus).
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noun
Meaning 5
The flying gurnard (Dactyloptena orientalis).
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noun
Meaning 6
Exocoetus volitans, a flying fish of the Atlantic.
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noun
Meaning 7
A chiton, a mollusc of the class Polyplacophora.
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noun
Meaning 8
Any of several brightly colored fishes.
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Broader terms: fish, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature
noun
Meaning 9
small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide
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Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
Narrower terms: chaetodon, angelfish, rock beauty, Holocanthus tricolor
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Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: perhokala — any fish of the family Chaetodontidae
- German: Korallenfisch — any fish of the family Chaetodontidae
- Russian: щетинозу́б (ščetinozúb) — any fish of the family Chaetodontidae
- Russian: ры́ба-ба́бочка (rýba-bábočka) — any fish of the family Chaetodontidae
- Swahili: kipepeo — any fish of the family Chaetodontidae
- Finnish: perhoskala — Pantodon buchholzi
- German: Schmetterlingsfisch — Pantodon buchholzi
- Russian: ры́ба-ба́бочка (rýba-bábočka) — Pantodon buchholzi
- Russian: пресново́дная ры́ба-ба́бочка (presnovódnaja rýba-bábočka) — Pantodon buchholzi
- Russian: ры́ба-мотылёк (rýba-motyljók) — Pantodon buchholzi
- Russian: пантодо́н (pantodón) — Pantodon buchholzi