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Filefish

Filefish Meaning & Definition
Filefish Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Filefish?

[n] narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine

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See Also | Balistidae | family Balistidae | leatherfish | leatherjacket | plectognath | plectognath fish

Filefish In Webster's Dictionary

\File"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any plectognath fish of the genera {Monacanthus}, {Alutera}, {balistes}, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.

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