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surgeonfish
Definition: brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
Definition: Any of many species of reef-dwelling fishes, most of them brightly coloured, of the family Acanthuridae. They are named "surgeonfish" because they bear erectile, scalpel-like, dangerously sharp spines on either side of the caudal peduncle.