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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A brightly colored fish of the family Pomacanthidae of warm seas, having a laterally compressed body.
  2. n. A freshwater fish (Pterophyllum scalare), native to rivers of tropical South America and having a laterally compressed, usually striped body. It is popular in aquariums. Also called scalare.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A freshwater fish, tropical cichlids of the genus Pterophyllum.
  2. n. A marine fish of the family Pomacanthidae, common on shallow tropical reefs.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus
  2. n. deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
  3. n. sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do

Etymologies

  1. angel +‎ fish (Wiktionary)

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