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angelfish

noun an·gel·fish \ ˈān-jəl-ˌfish \

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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A school of black-and-yellow-stripe angelfish darted around me, while a grouper the size of a Smart car lumbered past.

— joshua hammer, New York Times, "In Eritrea, a Diver’s Dreamscape," 16 Feb. 2017

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1668

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