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file-fish
[f. file n.1 + fish n.]
†a. = file-shell (file n.1 5). Obs.
b. A fish of the genus Balistes, having its skin granulated like a file.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. VII. iv. 61 The latter [kind] are called Pholades or File Fish. 1815Trans. Lit. & Philos. Soc. N.Y. I. 467 Tut⁓mouthed file-fish. Balistes broccus. 1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 977/2 The incisors of the File-fish. 1962K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyology vi. 192 Both the dorsal and the anal fins are moderately long-based in the triggerfishes and filefishes (Balistidae). 1969A. Wheeler Fishes Brit. Isles & N.-W. Europe 565 Trigger-fish (File-fish). |
