queen triggerfish

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Noun1.queen triggerfish - tropical Atlantic fishqueen triggerfish - tropical Atlantic fish    
Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwench, oldwife
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
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