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wrasse (ras)

noun pl. wrasses 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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