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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1681 any of various small-mouthed bony fishes (family Monacantidae, especially genera Aluterus, Cantherhines, and Monacanthus) with rough granular leathery skin

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Filefish 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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