damselfish
dam·sel·fish [ ˈdam-zəl-ˌfish]
[ˈdam-zəl-ˌfish]
: any of numerous often brilliantly colored marine fishes (family Pomacentridae) living especially along coral reefs
— called also demoiselle
Recent Examples on the Web
//Come face-to-face with countless species of marine life—from colorful parrotfish and damselfish to eels, rays, and turtles.
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National Geographic, "Belize Expedition: Oceans and Underwater Exploration," 10 Sep. 2019
//Come face-to-face with countless species of marine life—from colorful parrotfish and damselfish to eels, rays, and turtles.
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National Geographic, "Belize Expedition: Oceans and Underwater Exploration," 10 Sep. 2019
//Come face-to-face with countless species of marine life—from colorful parrotfish and damselfish to eels, rays, and turtles.
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National Geographic, "Belize Expedition: Oceans and Underwater Exploration," 10 Sep. 2019
//Come face-to-face with countless species of marine life—from colorful parrotfish and damselfish to eels, rays, and turtles.
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National Geographic, "Belize Expedition: Oceans and Underwater Exploration," 10 Sep. 2019
//Come face-to-face with countless species of marine life—from colorful parrotfish and damselfish to eels, rays, and turtles.
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National Geographic, "Belize Expedition: Oceans and Underwater Exploration," 10 Sep. 2019
//Come face-to-face with countless species of marine life—from colorful parrotfish and damselfish to eels, rays, and turtles.
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National Geographic, "Belize High School Expedition," 12 June 2019
//As a result, plant-eating damselfish were smaller and grew more slowly around the islands with rats than the islands without.
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Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic, "How rats became an inescapable part of city living," 17 June 2019
//Reef dwellers like snapping shrimp, damselfish , and clownfish all chirp and chatter away.
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David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "The Great Barrier Reef Has Gone Silent. Here's Why That's So Dangerous.," 1 May 2018
First Known Use of damselfish
1904, in the meaning defined above
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