shrimpfish

shrimpfish
noun
slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates
Syn: ↑shrimp-fish
Hypernyms: ↑teleost fish, ↑teleost, ↑teleostan
Member Holonyms: ↑Centriscidae, ↑family Centriscidae

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
: any of numerous small compressed East Indian marine fishes of the family Centriscidae that are related to the bellows fish and have a tubular snout and the body covered with an armor of transparent bony plates which is fused with the endoskeleton, extends over and beyond the down-turned dorsal and caudal fins, and terminates in a long spine

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/shrimp"fish'/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) shrimpfish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) shrimpfishes.
any of several fishes of the family Centriscidae, inhabiting shallow waters from eastern Africa to Hawaii, having a compressed body covered with transparent plates.
[SHRIMP + FISH]

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