wrasse
English Thesaurus
1. chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, |
definition | : | any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish, pigfish, |
definition | : | found around the Great Barrier Reef (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | hog snapper, hogfish, lachnolaimus maximus, |
definition | : | large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | halicoeres bivittatus, slippery dick, |
definition | : | small wrasse of tropical Atlantic (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife, puddingwife, |
definition | : | bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | bluehead, thalassoma bifasciatum, |
definition | : | small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | razor fish, razor-fish, |
definition | : | any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | blackfish, tautog, tautoga onitis, |
definition | : | large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | bergall, cunner, tautogolabrus adspersus, |
definition | : | common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States (noun.animal) |
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