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☆ surgeon·fish (-fis̸h′)
noun pl. surgeonfish -·fish′, surgeonfishes -·fish′es
any of a family (Acanthuridae) of edible, usually brightly colored, tropical percoid sea fishes with one or more movable, lancelike spines on either side of the base of the tail
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