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Definition of sweetlips in English: sweetlips(also sweetlip) noun A patterned grunt (fish) that changes its colour and markings with age, occurring in the Indo-Pacific. Plectorhynchus and other genera, family Pomadasyidae: several species, including the oriental sweetlips (P. orientalis) Example sentencesExamples - Maori wrasse, sweetlips and trevallies hang in the current.
- The fish life at Karan was rich, with big shoals of sweetlips and angelfish swimming together.
- Fish are everywhere, not just the current-indicating anthias but all the bigger fish, from harlequin sweetlips to trevally and grouper.
- The sites are home to a vast variety of reef dwellers such as the damselfish, angelfish, butterflyfish and sweetlips.
- Spotted sweetlips and other tropical fish loiter under its intact wings.
- At times we were engulfed by batfish, sweetlips, fusiliers, snappers and rainbow runners.
- Soft corals, upside-down fish, barracuda, sweetlips, blue-spotted rays, grouper, lionfish, shrimps and sand-eels have each staked out their own sectarian neighbourhoods.
- Large and small nudibranchs are everywhere, and batfish, barracuda, sweetlips and large groupers would follow us around.
- Joining us in the surge were angelfish, snappers, sweetlips, two spotted moray eels and a shoal of longfin bannerfish, with their zebralike stripes.
- Schools of goatfish, nanagai, sweetlips and trevally swirl everywhere.
- At Uvinge Gap and Mesali Gap can be found deep-water drop-offs, home to schools of bigeye jacks, barracuda, giant sweetlips and groupers.
- Compared with the Club O, reefs here are prettier, with more schools of larger fish, such as sweetlips and snappers.
- Hiding in a cave was a sweetlips which seemed never to have heard about spearguns.
- The dock drops sheer to the sandy bottom at 21m; some sections are undercut, forming deep hollows sheltering sweetlips and other fish.
- The dive is a wonderful introduction to the Bahamas, with brightly coloured shoals of butterflyfish and sweetlips hovering over an intact, though comprehensively flattened, superstructure.
- Schools of snapper and sweetlips patrol, along with the odd Napoleon wrasse.
- Maori wrasse, sweetlips, trevallies, grouper and every variety of Indo-Pacific coral browser hover around.
- A small window - the only part of the Barnacle not covered in some manner of coral - allows me to peek inside, where I see a handful of oriental sweetlips, some snapper and an angelfish.
- The reefs attract plenty of white-tip reef sharks, sweetlips, turtles, slimline barracuda and the whole catalogue of Indo-Pacific reef life.
- Thousands of oriental sweetlips rest on the bottom, with schools of batfish out in the blue.
Definition of sweetlips in US English: sweetlips(also sweetlip) nounˈswētlips A patterned grunt (fish) that changes its color and markings with age, occurring in the Indo-Pacific. Plectorhynchus and other genera, family Pomadasyidae: several species, including the oriental sweetlips (P. orientalis) Example sentencesExamples - Thousands of oriental sweetlips rest on the bottom, with schools of batfish out in the blue.
- Fish are everywhere, not just the current-indicating anthias but all the bigger fish, from harlequin sweetlips to trevally and grouper.
- Large and small nudibranchs are everywhere, and batfish, barracuda, sweetlips and large groupers would follow us around.
- Compared with the Club O, reefs here are prettier, with more schools of larger fish, such as sweetlips and snappers.
- The reefs attract plenty of white-tip reef sharks, sweetlips, turtles, slimline barracuda and the whole catalogue of Indo-Pacific reef life.
- A small window - the only part of the Barnacle not covered in some manner of coral - allows me to peek inside, where I see a handful of oriental sweetlips, some snapper and an angelfish.
- Schools of snapper and sweetlips patrol, along with the odd Napoleon wrasse.
- The sites are home to a vast variety of reef dwellers such as the damselfish, angelfish, butterflyfish and sweetlips.
- Maori wrasse, sweetlips, trevallies, grouper and every variety of Indo-Pacific coral browser hover around.
- Maori wrasse, sweetlips and trevallies hang in the current.
- Schools of goatfish, nanagai, sweetlips and trevally swirl everywhere.
- Joining us in the surge were angelfish, snappers, sweetlips, two spotted moray eels and a shoal of longfin bannerfish, with their zebralike stripes.
- Spotted sweetlips and other tropical fish loiter under its intact wings.
- At Uvinge Gap and Mesali Gap can be found deep-water drop-offs, home to schools of bigeye jacks, barracuda, giant sweetlips and groupers.
- Soft corals, upside-down fish, barracuda, sweetlips, blue-spotted rays, grouper, lionfish, shrimps and sand-eels have each staked out their own sectarian neighbourhoods.
- The dock drops sheer to the sandy bottom at 21m; some sections are undercut, forming deep hollows sheltering sweetlips and other fish.
- The dive is a wonderful introduction to the Bahamas, with brightly coloured shoals of butterflyfish and sweetlips hovering over an intact, though comprehensively flattened, superstructure.
- Hiding in a cave was a sweetlips which seemed never to have heard about spearguns.
- The fish life at Karan was rich, with big shoals of sweetlips and angelfish swimming together.
- At times we were engulfed by batfish, sweetlips, fusiliers, snappers and rainbow runners.
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