angelfish
Americannoun
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a South American freshwater fish, genus Pterophyllum, often kept in aquariums.
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any of various small tropical marine percoid fishes of the genus Pomacanthus and related genera, which have a deep flattened brightly coloured body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae See also butterflyfish
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Also called: scalare. a South American cichlid, Pterophyllum scalare, of the Amazon region, having a compressed body and large dorsal and anal fins: a popular aquarium fish
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another name for angel shark
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Those keys have enabled him to breed fish that no one else has, including striped regal angelfish and frilly black-bodied, orange-rimmed pinnatus batfish.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2022
Animals raised by farms on land or in the ocean statewide include shrimp, oysters, clams, moi, tilapia, kampachi, koi and angelfish.
From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2020
Later we snorkeled along the shoreline, spotting pencil urchins, neon-blue wrasse, Cortez angelfish and pushy hogfish chasing their neighbors.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2020
Who needs two turtledoves or a partridge in a pear tree when there are so many species under the sea, including the seasonally appropriate angelfish?
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2018
The fish had the hues of sunsets on their scales, and the most beautiful, the angelfish, were three for a penny, while the uglier, more edible ones, were sixpence each.
From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William
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