shrimp-fish

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

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