Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of butterfly-fishes of the family Chætodontidæ.

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  • Other ingredients included another bouga toad and not one but four species of puffer fish Sphoeroides testudineus, S. spengleri, Diodon hystrix, D. holacanthus.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

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