goatfish
Americannoun
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goatfishes,
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goatfish
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noun
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The fish included golden African snappers, blackbar soldierfish, Guinean angelfish, West African goatfish, the Monrovia doctorfish, three-banded butterflyfish, and two species of damselfish.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
In late September, the 18,000-square-foot space was sparsely populated with three rays, a cluster of silvery goatfish and multiple tanks of coral.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Cowfish and goatfish grazed here and there, as a small, curious barracuda patrolled in the distance.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2015
Yet even today, if you ask older Hawaiians about “weke”—a goatfish catchall that can designate anything from yellowfin goatfish to bandtail goatfish—“many will get nostalgic,” Van Houtan recounts.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2013
Anything that emerged from the night’s catch—squirrelfish or parrot fish, milky-eyed goatfish dead in the ropes, sling-jawed lionfish with their wings twisted—now lies spread in smudged colors across the Frenchman’s bed.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2010
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