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WRASSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wrasse" 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 "wrasse"):
Achoerodus gouldii; giant pigfish; pigfish (found around the Great Barrier Reef)
hog snapper; hogfish; Lachnolaimus maximus (large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout)
Halicoeres bivittatus; slippery dick (small wrasse of tropical Atlantic)
Halicoeres radiatus; pudding-wife; puddingwife (bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil)
bluehead; Thalassoma bifasciatum (small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head)
razor-fish; razor fish (any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean)
blackfish; tautog; Tautoga onitis (large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America)
bergall; cunner; Tautogolabrus adspersus (common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States)
