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Balistidae

noun

triggerfishes

• Syn: ↑family Balistidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Plectognathi, ↑order Plectognathi, ↑order Tetraodontiformes

• Member Meronyms: ↑triggerfish, ↑Balistes, ↑genus Balistes, ↑filefish

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\\-_stəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Balistes, type genus + -idae

: a family of long-snouted small-eyed marine fishes having a deep compressed body and rough spinose scales, comprising the triggerfishes and sometimes the filefishes, and a few related forms consisting a suborder of Plectognathi

Useful english dictionary. 2012.