Abudefduf
noun
Ab·u·def·duf
ˌabüˈdef(ˌ)dəf
: a genus of small ovate short-headed marine teleost fishes commonly found about rocks and other submerged objects and usually included in the percoid family Pomacentridae but sometimes made the type of a separate family (Abudefdufidae)
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin, borrowed from Arabic abūdafdūf
First Known Use
1897, in the meaning defined above
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