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goatfish
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goat·fish  (gtfsh)
n. pl. goatfish or goat·fish·es
Any of various brightly colored fishes of the family Mullidae of warm seas, having two sensory barbels on the chin. Also called red mullet, surmullet.
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Noun1.goatfishgoatfish - brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels
Mullus surmuletus, red mullet, surmullet
mullet - bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin
genus Mullus, Mullus - type genus of the Mullidae: goatfishes
Mullus auratus, red goatfish - body bright scarlet with 2 yellow to reddish strips on side
Mulloidichthys martinicus, yellow goatfish - schooling goatfish; greyish with yellow stripe


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