Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of fishes, typified by the genus Balistes, adopted by different authors with various limits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a natural family comprising the triggerfishes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun triggerfishes
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Examples
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Filefishes (Family Monacanthidae), triggerfishes (Family Balistidae), trunkfishes (Family Ostraciidae), and porcupinefishes (Family Diodontidae), have evolved interesting solutions to this problem.
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