Usually means: Colorful fish with whisker-like barbels.
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  1. goatfish: Merriam-Webster
  2. goatfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. goatfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. goatfish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. goatfish: Vocabulary.com
  6. goatfish: Wordnik
  7. goatfish: Wiktionary
  8. goatfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. goatfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Goatfish, goatfish: Dictionary.com
  11. Goatfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Goatfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. goatfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. goatfish: Rhymezone
  15. Goatfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. goatfish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. goatfish: FreeDictionary.org
  18. goatfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. goatfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. goatfish: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (goatfish)

▸ noun:  Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Mullidae, having two barbels on the chin.

Similar:
red mullet, surmullet, mullus surmuletus, mullid, mullet, beardfish, dragonfish, goosefish, boarfish, butterfly fish, more...

Types:
surmullet, escolar, snubnose, oilfish, ribbonfish, cutlassfish, more...

Phrases:
yellow goatfish, red goatfish, more...

Adjectives:
yellow, red, spotted, white, mexican, hawaiian, japanese

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Similar:
red mullet, surmullet, mullus surmuletus, mullid, mullet, beardfish, dragonfish, goosefish, boarfish, butterfly fish, more...

Types:
surmullet, escolar, snubnose, oilfish, ribbonfish, cutlassfish, more...

Phrases:
yellow goatfish, red goatfish, more...

Adjectives:
yellow, red, spotted, white, mexican, hawaiian, japanese



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