Definition of cichlid Cichlid
cich•lid
We found 4 definitions of cichlid from 4 different sources.
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What does cichlid mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: cichlids |
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| cichlid - freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums | ||
| cichlid fish | ||
| percoid, percoid fish, percoidean any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | ||
| cichlidae, family cichlidae cichlids | ||
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Wiktionary 
- cichlid (Noun)
Any of many tropical fish , of the family Cichlidae, popular as aquarium fish .
Wikipedia 
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Cichlids (say: "sick-lid") are fishes from the "Cichlidae" family, in the order "Perciformes".
It is a very large family of fish made up of more than 2500 species.
They come in many different sizes, from 2.5 centimeters to almost a meter long.
Part of speech
🔤- cichlid, noun, singular of cichlids.
