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noun
Any of many tropical fish, of the family Cichlidae, popular as aquarium fish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cichlid fish
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
Narrower terms: bolti, Tilapia nilotica
History
Borrowed from Translingual Cichlidae.
Across languages
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
