dory

(plural – dories; also called ‘blue tang’; pronunciation: the letter ‘o’ rhymes with either the letter ‘o’ in “for” or the letters ‘oe’ in “toe”, and the letter ‘y’ rhymes with the letters ‘ee’ in “bee” — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)

a kind of dory

a kind of fish – a common name given to any of the large-eyed, deep compressed silvery bodied deep sea fish; different species (kinds) in different sizes and weights – the most common dory ‘John dory fish’: on average, 2 feet long and 3 Kg heavy with a dark spot, like an extra eye, on each side of its body with ten spines on its back and four spines on the belly; lives for about 12 years; found in the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea