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# parrotfish

«parrotfish» in Mova's school dictionary: **a brightly coloured fish of coral reefs with teeth joined…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a parrotfish, parrotfish or parrotfishes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A parrotfish is a brightly coloured fish of coral reefs with teeth joined into a beak like a parrot's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parrotfish/#m1)

2) It scrapes and bites coral to eat the algae on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parrotfish/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, parrotfish keep coral reefs healthy by eating algae. They grind coral and poo out fine white sand, so a lot of beach sand on tropical islands comes from them. Some sleep in a bubble of mucus.

### examples

- The parrotfish crunched on the coral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parrotfish/#x1)
- Parrotfish make white sand on tropical beaches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parrotfish/#x2)
- We saw a blue and green parrotfish when snorkelling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parrotfish/#x3)
- A parrotfish sleeps in a slimy bubble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parrotfish/#x4)
- Its mouth looks like a parrot's beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parrotfish/#x5)
- Parrotfish help keep the reef clean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parrotfish/#x6)

### note

Plural usually «parrotfish». It is a fish, not a bird.

### In the corpora

- [Fish have no eyelids, but many rest by slowing down and floating still; some parrotfish sleep in a bubble of slime.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «parrotfish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parrotfish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.