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Mediterranean parrotfish

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Sparisoma cretense, a relatively common species of scarid fish found in the Mediterranean.

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  • Chinese Mandarin: 異齒鸚鯛 /异齿鹦鲷 (yìchǐ yīngdiāo) — Sparisoma cretense
  • French: poisson-perroquet méditerranéen — Sparisoma cretense
  • German: Europäischer Papageifisch — Sparisoma cretense
  • Greek: σκάρος (skáros) — Sparisoma cretense
  • Ancient Greek: μήρῠξ (mḗrŭx) — Sparisoma cretense
  • Polish: sparysoma kreteńska — Sparisoma cretense
  • Russian: средиземномо́рская ло́ра (sredizemnomórskaja lóra) — Sparisoma cretense
  • Spanish: vieja colorada — Sparisoma cretense
  • Turkish: i̇skaroz — Sparisoma cretense