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Goatfish

Definition: Goatfish

Goatfish

Noun

1. Brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Goatfish

Synonyms: red mullet (n), surmullet (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Goatfish

English words defined with "goatfish": Mulloidichthys martinicusyellow goatfish. (references)

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Photo Album: Goatfish

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Yellow goatfish - Parupeneus cyclostomos. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Flash picture of goatfish, Mulloidichthys samoensis (Weke) taken at night. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Goatfish school - Mulloidichthys samoensis (Known as weke.). Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Thalasomma duperreyi(Blue Wrasse) and goatfish Parapeneus multifasciatus (Moano) These fish are next to an exclusion cage that prevents grazing in order to study the effects of fish on benthic algal growth. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Cushion starfish, Culcita novaeguineae, and the goatfish Parapeneus multifasciatus (Moano) on a night dive on the reef. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Parupeneus multifasciatus - a red goatfish. Orange bryozoan colonizing underside of pipe. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Goatfish - Parupeneus chryserydros - with goat whiskers. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Common inshore red goatfish - Parupeneus porphyreus These fish feed on small crustaceans and swallow them whole. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Large fish a surgeonfish - Acanthurus olivaceus; red striped fish is goatfish Parupeneus sp. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Mixed school of goatfish, Parupeneus multifasciatus, Parapeneus pleurostigma, and Chaetodon miliaris. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Expressions: Goatfish

Expressions using "goatfish": red goatfish yellow goatfish. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Goatfish

Derivations

Words beginning with "goatfish": goatfishes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Goatfish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-g-h-i-o-s-t"

-1 letter: goatish.

-2 letters: fagots, faiths, fights, oafish.

-3 letters: agios, agist, fagot, faith, fatso, fiats, fight, foist, gaits, ghast, ghats, ghost, gifts, goats, hafis, hafts, hoist, hosta, iotas, oaths, ohias, ostia, saith, shaft, shift, shoat, sight, softa, staig, stoai, togas.

-4 letters: agio, aits, fags, fash, fast, fats, fiat, figs, fish, fist, fits, fogs, gait, gash, gast.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-g-h-i-o-s-t"
 

+2 letters: goatfishes.

 

+5 letters: flowchartings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Goatfish


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 6F 61 74 66 69 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    ---    .-    -    ..-.    ..    ...    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01101111 01100001 01110100 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

G o a t f i s h

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 006F 0061 0074 0066 0069 0073 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4181678672758574

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