parrotfish

English

Alternative forms

• parrot-fish

Etymology

From parrot +‎ fish.

Noun

parrotfish (plural parrotfishes or parrotfish)

1. 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

• Bulgarian: риба-папагал f (riba-papagal)
• Catalan: peix lloro (ca) f
• Finnish: papukaijakala
• German: Papageifisch (de) m
• Greek: σκάρος (el) m (skáros)
• Italian: pesce pappagallo m, scaro m
• Portuguese: peixe-papagaio m
• Russian: ры́ба-попуга́й (ru) f (rýba-popugáj)
• Spanish: pez loro (es)