file-fish
[f. file n.1 + fish n.]
† a. = file-shell (file n.1 5). Obs. b. A fish of the genus Balistes, having its skin granulated like a file.
| 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. VII. iv. 61 The latter [kind] are called Pholades or File Fish. 1815 Trans. Lit. & Philos. Soc. N.Y. I. 467 Tut⁓mouthed file-fish. Balistes broccus. 1839–47 Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 977/2 The incisors of the File-fish. 1962 K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyology vi. 192 Both the dorsal and the anal fins are moderately long-based in the triggerfishes and filefishes (Balistidae). 1969 A. Wheeler Fishes Brit. Isles & N.-W. Europe 565 Trigger-fish (File-fish). |