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GOATFISH (goatfishes)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does goatfish mean?
• GOATFISH (noun)
The noun GOATFISH has 1 sense:
1. brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels
Familiarity information: GOATFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
goatfish; Mullus surmuletus; red mullet; surmullet
Hypernyms ("goatfish" is a kind of...):
mullet (bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "goatfish"):
Mullus auratus; red goatfish (body bright scarlet with 2 yellow to reddish strips on side)
Mulloidichthys martinicus; yellow goatfish (schooling goatfish; greyish with yellow stripe)
Holonyms ("goatfish" is a member of...):
genus Mullus; Mullus (type genus of the Mullidae: goatfishes)
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