angelfish

angelfish
noun Date: 1668 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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