Definition of wrasses Wrasses
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Wiktionary 
- wrasses (Noun)
Plural of wrasse.
Part of speech
🔤- wrasses, noun, plural of wrasse.
WordNet
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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 | ||
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Wiktionary
- wrasse (Noun)
Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus , of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- wrasse (n.)
Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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wrasse
The Crenilabrus tinca, a sea-fish, sometimes called old-wife.
Part of speech
🔤- wrasse, noun, singular of wrasses.
