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Filefish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Filefish has 1 sense
- filefish(n = noun.animal) - narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine; is a kind of plectognath, plectognath fish
is a member of balistidae, family balistidae
has particulars: leatherfish, leatherjacket
CIDE DICTIONARY
Filefish, n.
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. [1913 Webster]
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