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Balistidae

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n.1.a natural family comprising the triggerfishes.
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Noun1.Balistidae - triggerfishes
family Balistidae
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Plectognathi, order Tetraodontiformes, Plectognathi - boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers
triggerfish - any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
Balistes, genus Balistes - type genus of the Balistidae
filefish - narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
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