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Definition of Filefishes
1. filefish [n] - See also: filefish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filefishes
Literary usage of Filefishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"As a family, the filefishes and their allies are specially distinguished by the
presence of a small number of distinct teeth in the jaws. ..."
2. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"The filefishes have a conical muzzle, terminating in a mouth furnished with teeth in
... The filefishes are brilliantly colored, and abound in warm seas; ..."
3. A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1895)
"Again, as in the filefishes (Balistes), the skin may be beset with innumerable
small spines, somewhat like those which form the shagreen of the ..."
4. The Island of Guam by Leonard Martin Cox, Edward John Dorn, Kenneth Chafee McIntosh, Merlyn Grail Cook, Allen H. White, United States Navy Dept (1917)
"... which evidently feed upon the coral. There are also naked mollusks that protect
themselves by spurting forth clouds of purple fluid. filefishes ..."
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