triggerfish
- n any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
- Try saying triggerfish under water.
- That will produce anything from an overambitious triggerfish (beautiful colors but sluggish: let it go) to a large black snapper or a larger wahoo.
- He experimented in the saltwater lagoons of the mainland of Luzon and became the country's first exporter of such colorful species as angelfish and triggerfish for aquariums in the .