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单词 wrasse
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wrasse


wrasse

W0235900 (răs)n. Any of numerous often brightly colored marine fishes of the family Labridae, having spiny fins and thick lips and valued for food and for home aquariums.
[Cornish gwragh and Welsh gwrach, old woman.]

wrasse

(ræs) n (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[C17: from Cornish wrach; related to Welsh gwrach old woman]

wrasse

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n. any tropical marine fish of the family Labridae, esp. of the genus Labrus, having thick, fleshy lips and powerful teeth. [1665–75; appar. orig. a pl. of dial. (Cornwall) wrah, wrath < Cornish wragh, variant of gwragh literally, old woman, hag; compare Welsh gwrach(en), Breton gwrac'h]
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Noun1.wrasse - chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly coloredpercoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order PerciformesAchoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish, pigfish - found around the Great Barrier Reefhog snapper, hogfish, Lachnolaimus maximus - large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snoutHalicoeres bivittatus, slippery dick - small wrasse of tropical AtlanticHalicoeres radiatus, puddingwife, pudding-wife - bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazilbluehead, Thalassoma bifasciatum - small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue headrazor fish, razor-fish - any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterraneanblackfish, tautog, Tautoga onitis - large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North Americabergall, cunner, Tautogolabrus adspersus - common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States
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wrasse


wrasse

(răs), common name for a member of the large family Labridae, brilliantly colored fishes found among rocks and kelp in tropical seas. Wrasses, related to the parrotfishesparrotfish,
common name for a member of a large group of colorful reef fishes of warm seas, resembling the wrasses but of a larger size. Long considered a separate family, Scaridae, they are now grouped as a subfamily, Scarinae, of Labridae (the wrasse family) by some
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 (which are included in the wrasse family by some authorities), feed on mollusks and are equipped with shell-crushing teeth in both the mouth and throat. The lips are fleshy, and some wrasses are able to extend the mouth and jaws forward to engulf their prey. Well known on the N Atlantic coast are the cunners (about 1 ft/30 cm long), which are useful scavengers. The tautog, or blackfish, an important food fish of the S New England coast, is a sluggish fish that hibernates in cold weather. Southern wrasses, found off the West Indies and Florida coasts, include the hogfish, a large, showy red fish with a piglike snout, and the puddingwife. The California sheepshead is a large wrasse reaching up to 3 ft (91 cm) and 30 lb (13.5 kg) and most abundant S of Monterey. The female is a dull red and the male is boldly patterned in crimson and black. The flesh of wrasses sometimes causes ciguatera poisoning in humans. Wrasses are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
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, subphylum Vertebrata, class Actinopterygii, order Perciformes, family Labridae.

wrasse

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

wrasse


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noun chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth

Related Words

  • percoid
  • percoid fish
  • percoidean
  • Achoerodus gouldii
  • giant pigfish
  • pigfish
  • hog snapper
  • hogfish
  • Lachnolaimus maximus
  • Halicoeres bivittatus
  • slippery dick
  • Halicoeres radiatus
  • puddingwife
  • pudding-wife
  • bluehead
  • Thalassoma bifasciatum
  • razor fish
  • razor-fish
  • blackfish
  • tautog
  • Tautoga onitis
  • bergall
  • cunner
  • Tautogolabrus adspersus
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