noun
butterfly fishes
• Syn: ↑family Chaetodontidae
• Hypernyms: ↑fish family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi
• Member Meronyms: ↑butterfly fish, ↑genus Chaetodon, ↑Pomacanthus, ↑genus Pomacanthus
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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈdäntəˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: a large family of percoid tropical marine fishes common about coral reefs that includes the butterfly fishes
Useful english dictionary. 2012.