parrotfish

English

Etymology

parrot +‎ fish

Noun

parrotfish (plural parrotfishes or parrotfish)

Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.

Translations

tropical marine fish

Catalan: peix lloro (ca) f
Finnish: papukaijakala
German: Papageifisch m
Greek: σκάρος (el) m (skáros)

Italian: pesce pappagallo m, scaro m
Portuguese: peixe-papagaio m
Russian: ры́ба-попуга́й (ru) f (rýba-popugáj)

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