noun
gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
• Syn: ↑parrotfish, ↑polly fish
• Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean
• Member Holonyms: ↑Scaridae, ↑family Scaridae
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/pol"ee fish'/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) pollyfish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) pollyfishes.
parrotfish.
[POLLY + FISH]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.