Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun angelfish

3 senses of angelfish

Sense 1
angelfish -- (a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus)
       => butterfly fish -- (small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide)

Sense 2
spadefish, angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber -- (deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters)
       => percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Sense 3
angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina, monkfish -- (sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do)
       => shark -- (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)