acanthurus chirurgus

1. 1.

   surgeon fish of the West Indies

   Synonymsdoctorfishdoctor-fish

   Broadersurgeonfish

   Part ofAcanthurus

Questions about acanthurus chirurgus

What does acanthurus chirurgus mean?

acanthurus chirurgus means "surgeon fish of the West Indies".

What is another word for acanthurus chirurgus?

Close synonyms include doctorfish, doctor-fish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acanthurus chirurgus a common word?

acanthurus chirurgus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.