HyperDic: cichlid_fish

English > 1 sense of the expression cichlid fish:
NOUNanimalcichlid fish, cichlidfreshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes
English > cichlid fish: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningfreshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums.
Synonymcichlid
Member ofCichlidae, family Cichlidaecichlids
Narrowerbolti, Tilapia niloticaImportant food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor
Broaderpercoid fish, percoid, percoideanAny of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
Spanishcichlidae
Catalancíclid

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