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wrasse  (rs)

n.

Any of numerous chiefly tropical, often brightly colored marine fishes of the family Labridae, having spiny fins, thick lips, and powerful jaws, and often valued for food.

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[Cornish gwragh and Welsh gwrach, old woman.]

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wrasse [ræs]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any marine percoid fish of the family Labridae, of tropical and temperate seas, having thick lips, strong teeth, and usually a bright coloration: many are used as food fishes

[from Cornish wrach; related to Welsh gwrach old woman]

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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 around the Great Barrier Reef hog snapper, hogfish, Lachnolaimus maximus - 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 blackfish, tautog, Tautoga onitis - large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America bergall, cunner, Tautogolabrus adspersus - common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States