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razor fish

noun

any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean

• Syn: ↑razor-fish

• Hypernyms: ↑wrasse

• Hyponyms: ↑pearly razorfish, ↑Hemipteronatus novacula

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hemipteronatus, ↑genus Hemipteronatus

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noun

1.

a. : any of several small wrasses (genus Xyrichthys); especially : a fish (X. psittacus) marked with bright red and blue and found especially in the Mediterranean and West Indies

b. southern Africa : a common heavily armored shrimpfish (Aeoliscus punctulatus) that is found in the Indian ocean

2. : razor clam

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razor clam or razor fish,

any one of various bivalve mollusks with a long, narrow shell.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.