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Brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels
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goatfish
Word definitions for goatfish in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Mullidae, having two barbels on the chin.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The goatfishes are perciform fish of the family Mullidae . The family is also sometimes referred to as the red mullets , which also refers more narrowly to the genus Mullus . The family name and the English common name "mullet" name are derived from Latin ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels [syn: red mullet , surmullet , Mullus surmuletus ] [also: goatfishes (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goatfish \Goat"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A fish of the genus Upeneus , inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.
Usage examples of goatfish.
When he worked on a shipwreck, goatfish dug in the sand beside him, rays skittered across the bottom, and there was always the tiny danger that some nearsighted wrasse would take a bite from his earlobe.
Not only were there parrotfish, but yellowstrip goatfish as well, a treat.
They wore breech-cloths of goatfish leather, beaded with intricate designs: gray, blue, and dusty rose.
The monitor is now awash in underwater rainbows from the Great Barrier Reef along with an infinity of tiny corals, sponges, scorpion and lionfish, goatfish, clownfish, moray eels, and sea stars.