family Balistidae

Thesaurus

Noun

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family Balistidae - triggerfishes Balistidaefish family - any of various families of fishorder Plectognathi, order Tetraodontiformes, Plectognathi - boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; pufferstriggerfish - any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal finBalistes, genus Balistes - type genus of the Balistidaefilefish - narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine