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goat⋅fish

  [goht-fish]
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–noun, plural -fish⋅es, (especially collectively) -fish.
any tropical and subtropical marine fish of the family Mullidae, having a pair of long barbels below the mouth.
Also called red mullet.

Origin:
1630–40; goat + fish
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goat·fish   (gōt'fĭsh')   
n.   pl. goatfish or goat·fish·es
Any of various brightly colored fishes of the family Mullidae of warm seas, having two sensory barbels on the chin. Also called red mullet, surmullet.
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goatfish

any of about 50 species of elongated marine fishes of the family Mullidae (order Perciformes).

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