filefish : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: filefish	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for filefish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
filefish n narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Filefish \File"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any plectognath fish of the genera {Monacanthus}, {Alutera}, {balistes}, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.