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US
/ˈeɪndʒəɫˌfɪʃ/
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[ UK /ˈeɪndʒəlfɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /ˈeɪndʒəlfɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
- a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus
- sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do
- deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
How To Use angelfish In A Sentence
- From the cooler water morwong, to a splendid angelfish and the brightly speckled hawkfish, this oceanic haven in the middle of a vast sea vibrates to the rhythm of the Pacific's currents.
- The jar contains a preserved Pterophyllum scalare freshwater angelfish from the Amazon, and the watercolor artwork in the background is by Agassiz’s illustrator Jacques Burkhardt. Pandas and Man at Harvard - The Panda's Thumb
- I thought it was an angelfish at first, but it was pretty cool! Field & Stream
- Disk and oval-shaped fishes: butterflyfishes, angelfishes, and surgeonfishes 2. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- In marine areas, species concentrations are highest around coral reefs, where butterflyfishes and angelfishes, wrasses, parrotfishes and triggerfishes are common.
- Wrasse, butterflies, boxfish, porcupines and pufferfish round out the picture, while lyretail grouper, Napoleon wrasse and rock cod mix with regal, map and other angelfish.
- Feeling rather like a whale among minnows, I found myself in the middle of schools of small green damselfish and a host of mainly yellow and blue angelfish, bannerfish and butterfly fish.
- Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.
- Other reef fish like soldierfishes, pygmy angelfishes, and unicornfishes also have pelagic larvae, but even these fish show genetic isolation based on their location. Livescience.com
- Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
