WRASSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrasse mean? 

• WRASSE (noun)
  The noun WRASSE has 1 sense:

1. chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored

  Familiarity information: WRASSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRASSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored

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Nouns denoting animals

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)