wrasse
wrasse
Definition
wrasse (ras)
noun pl. wrass′es or wrasse
any of a family (Labridae) of percoid fishes having thick lips, spiny fins, strong teeth, and bright coloring, found esp. in tropical seas: some species are valued as food fishes, as the tautog, cunner, and hogfish
Etymology: Corn wrach, gwrach
wrasse
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: The larger fish include humphead wrasse, schools of large batfish and small white-tip reef sharks.
- see: You see huge wrasse, and my buddy once saw a solitary dolphin on the wreck.
- find: This is the largest of the wrasses found in British waters.
Adjective modifier
- ballan: These fish live in deeper water than ballan wrasse, usually from 10 meters downwards to 30 m below sea level.
- clean: Plankton rich waters attract over 900 species of fish, ranging from cleaner wrasse through to whale sharks.
- large: The Pulpit Rock area is famous for large wrasse which are usually returned alive.
- small: Known to eat small gobies, small blennies and small wrasse, but not the Butterfish, Pholis gunnellus.
- colorful: I stopped to photograph one of the colorful ballan wrasse that frequent this part of the wreck.
- Maori: Its deck is comprehensively encrusted with sponges and corals, and patrolled by giant Maori wrasse and jacks.
Modifies a noun
- specie: There is no evidence of such sex changes in the smaller wrasse species.
- fish: Cuckoo wrasse fish live in the sea between 10 and 30 m deep.
Noun used with modifier
- ballan: Wildlife is rich around the wreck, particularly crabs, lobsters and ballan wrasse.
- napoleon: At ' the corner ' the currents pick up and the napoleon wrasse & eagle rays come out to play.
- humphead: The humphead wrasse, that can fetch up to $ 130 per kilo in the live reef fish trade, has also benefited.
- cuckoo: I have seen beautiful blue-and-gold male cuckoo wrasse here, a rare sight on the east coast.
- Maori: Around 8 huge giant maori wrasse, biggest any of us had ever seen, lurking around too.
- rainbow: Again there was plenty of life with spider crabs, rainbow wrasse and shoals of larger fish above.
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