the filefish

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Definition of the filefish in English English dictionary

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filefish

Any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very slender bodies

filefish

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

filefish

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

filefish

{i} tropical fish that is long and thin

Hyphenation

the file·fish