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parrotfish /ˈparətfɪʃ /noun (plural same or parrotfishes)1Any of a number of brightly coloured marine fish with a parrot-like beak, which they use to scrape food from coral and other hard surfaces:- A widespread fish of warm seas which may secrete a mucous cocoon to deter predators (family Scaridae: Scarus and other genera). An edible fish of the southern Indian ocean (Oplegnathus conwayi, family Oplegnathidae)..
As parrotfish graze they scrape away minute bits of white coral limestone along with the algae covering....- I eyed a buxom coral trout with blue spots on a pink background - they make good eating - and listened to the parrotfish gnawing the coral.
- Amid the coral and sponge branches you will find hamlets, basslets, parrotfish and moray eels.
2Australian / NZ A brightly coloured marine fish, especially one of the wrasse family.- Several species in the family Labridae.
Parrotfishes have traditionally been given their own family but current phylogenetic data suggest that parrotfishes are one radiation within the Labridae....- Off Byron the parrotfish and nice size squire and snapper are appearing.
- Outside of Ballina there have been some nice catches of pearl perch and parrotfish; while off Evans Head there have been some nice catches of snapper.
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