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doc⋅tor⋅fish

[dok-ter-fish]
–noun, plural -fish⋅es, (especially collectively) -fish.
a surgeonfish, esp. Acanthurus chirurgus, of the West Indies, having a bluish body and black tail.

Origin:
1825–35; so named from the knifelike rays on its tail
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