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CICHLID FISH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums

Synonyms:

cichlid; cichlid fish

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cichlid fish" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cichlid fish"):

bolti; Tilapia nilotica (important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor)

Holonyms ("cichlid fish" is a member of...):

Cichlidae; family Cichlidae (cichlids)

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