surgeonfish
Meaning of surgeonfish
noun
Any of many species of reef-dwelling fishes, most of them brightly coloured, of the family Acanthuridae. They are named "surgeonfish" because they bear erectile, scalpel-like, dangerously sharp spines on either side of the caudal peduncle.
Information about surgeonfish
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Hyphenation of surgeonfish
sur-geon-fish
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- surgeonfish is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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