butterfly fish

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   small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide

   Broaderpercoid fish

   Narrowerchaetodonangelfishrock beauty

   Part ofChaetodontidae

Questions about butterfly fish

What does butterfly fish mean?

butterfly fish means "small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide".

Is butterfly fish a common word?

butterfly fish 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.