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noun
Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: sea parrot
Antonyms: none provided
noun
chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
Narrower terms: pigfish, giant pigfish, Achoerodus gouldii, hogfish, hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus, slippery dick, Halicoeres bivittatus, puddingwife, pudding-wife, Halicoeres radiatus, bluehead, Thalassoma bifasciatum, razor fish, razor-fish, tautog, blackfish, Tautoga onitis, cunner, bergall, Tautogolabrus adspersus
History
Plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), lenited form of gwragh.
Across languages
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
