Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any of many species of reef-dwelling fishes, most of them brightly coloured, of the family Acanthuridae. They bear erectile, scalpel-like, dangerously sharp spines on either side of the caudal peduncle.

    Doktorfisch

    ры́ба-хиру́ргrýba-xirúrg

    хирург-рибаxyrurh-ryba

More definitions
  • brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae:
Русский
By meaning 1
any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae:

Origin

From surgeon + fish.

From surgeon + fish.

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Forms

plural: surgeonfishes / surgeonfish
Singularsurgeonfish
Pluralsurgeonfishes / surgeonfish

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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