triggerfish

English Thesaurus

1. any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	plectognath, plectognath fish,
definition	:	tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	balistes vetula, bessy cerca, oldwench, oldwife, queen triggerfish,
definition	:	tropical Atlantic fish (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	balistidae, family balistidae,
definition	:	triggerfishes (noun.animal)