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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
Narrower terms: doctorfish, doctor-fish, Acanthurus chirurgus
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
doktervis
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Bulgarian:
риба-хирург
(riba-hirurg)
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Catalan:
acantúrid
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Cebuano:
indangan
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Dhivehi:
ކާޅު އާއިލާ
(kāḷu āilā)
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Dutch:
doktersvis
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Finnish:
välskäri
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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French:
poisson-chirurgien
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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German:
Doktorfisch
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Hungarian:
doktorhalfélék
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Italian:
pesce chirurgo
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Kabuverdianu:
barberu
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Norwegian:
kirurgfisk
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Pohnpeian:
iwihwi
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Polish:
cyrulik
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Russian:
ры́ба-хиру́рг
(rýba-xirúrg)
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Spanish:
acantúrido
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Spanish:
pez cirujano
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Swedish:
kirurgfisk
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Tagalog:
labahita
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Tagalog:
indangan
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Turkish:
cerrah balığı
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
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Ukrainian:
хирург-риба
(xyrurh-ryba)
— any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae
