parrotfish

parrotfish
(复同单,或 -fishes)
  1. any of a number of brightly coloured marine fish with a parrot-like beak, which they use to scrape food from coral and other hard surfaces
    鹦嘴鱼;鹦鹉鱼
  2. a widespread fish of warm seas which may secrete a mucous cocoon to deter predators (family Scaridae: Scarus and other genera) an edible fish of the southern Indian ocean (Oplegnathus conwayi, family Oplegnathidae)
    鹦嘴鱼(鹦嘴鱼科:鹦嘴鱼属及其他属) 康氏石鲷(拉丁名Oplegnathus conwayi,石鲷科)
  3. (Austral.)a brightly coloured marine fish, especially one of the wrasse family
    (澳)鹦嘴鱼(尤指隆头鱼科的一种)
  4. Several species in the family Labridae
    隆头鱼科中数种
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