wrasse
We found 5 definitions of wrasse from 5 different sources.
NounPlural: wrasses |
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wrasse - chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored | ||
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | ||
achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish, pigfish found from Long Island southward | ||
hog snapper, lachnolaimus maximus, hogfish large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout | ||
halicoeres bivittatus, slippery dick small wrasse of tropical Atlantic | ||
halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife, puddingwife bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil | ||
bluehead, thalassoma bifasciatum small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head | ||
razor-fish, razor fish any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean | ||
tautog, tautoga onitis, blackfish large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America |