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angelfish

noun an·gel·fish \ ˈān-jəl-ˌfish \
|Updated on: 22 Jul 2018

Definition of angelfish

1 : any of several laterally compressed brightly colored bony fishes (family Pomacanthidae) of warm seas
2 : a black and silver laterally compressed South American cichlid fish (Pterophyllum scalare) popular in aquariums — called also scalare

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1668

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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