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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: sea parrot
Antonyms: none provided
noun
gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: polly fish, pollyfish
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
History
From parrot + fish.
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