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noun
Any of the family Apogonidae of mostly marine ray-finned fishes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
Narrower terms: flame fish, flamefish, Apogon maculatus, conchfish, Astropogon stellatus
History
From cardinal + fish.
