file-fishn.
/ˈfʌɪlfɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈfaɪlˌfɪʃ/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Pholadidae > member of
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 61 The latter [kind] are called Pholades or File Fish.
b. A fish of the genus Balistes, having its skin granulated like a file.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Balistidae (trigger-fish) > Balistes (file-fish)
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1815 Trans. Lit. & Philos. Soc. N.Y. 1 467 Tut-mouthed file-fish. Balistes broccus.
1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 977/2 The incisors of the File-fish.
1962 K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyol. vi. 192 Both the dorsal and the anal fins are moderately long-based in the triggerfishes and filefishes (Balistidae).
1969 A. Wheeler Fishes Brit. Isles & N.-W. Europe 565 Trigger-fish (File-fish).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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