angelfish
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- noun
- /ˈeɪndʒəlˌfɪʃ/
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pez ángel
- While snorkeling, we spotted a school of angelfish darting around the coral reefs.
- angelfish, butterfly fish
- angelfish tank
- yellow angelfish
Examples
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Now things you want to look for down there on this dive: spotted eels, spotted morays, enough of stingrays in the sand, there's angelfish, parrot fish, tropical fish, barbed beauties...
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The long fins of angelfish drift by, and the darting shimmer of neon guppies, their natural colors diminished and drained by artificial light.
Fiction book (1992) -
But you can go to a store, and you might be looking for an angelfish.
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His eyes narrow, and he looks at something above and behind the angelfish tank.
Fiction book (1990) -
They might have one angelfish in that whole store.
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We got two angelfish, four guppies and a baby moray eel.
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His home needed some other life form, something low maintenance, and he'd always had a black thumb, so he bought a tank and four plump angelfish.
Fiction book (1990) -
Descend into the 10-meter-long crevice, and look up into the skylight for a euphoric feeling as you see groupers, sweet lips, angelfish, wrasses, and sergeant majors swimming into the white light.
Blog text (3) -
At the aquarium, the vibrant angelfish swam gracefully among the colorful corals.
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My friend has a beautiful angelfish that adds a splash of color to his home tank.
Synonyms
A large, brightly colored angelfish that lives in tropical coral reefs
A bright yellow and black fish that lives on coral reefs in the western Atlantic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Angelfish comes from angel + fish, because the bright, disk-shaped tropical angelfish has long, wing-like fins and a graceful look; the name paints a picture of a fish with 'wings'.