Meaning | chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored. |
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Narrower | bluehead, Thalassoma bifasciatum | small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head |
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cunner, bergall, Tautogolabrus adspersus | Common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States |
hogfish, hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus | large wrasse of western Atlantic |
pigfish, giant pigfish, Achoerodus gouldii | Found around the Great Barrier Reef |
puddingwife, pudding-wife, Halicoeres radiatus | bluish and bronze wrasse |
razor fish, razor-fish | Any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean |
slippery dick, Halicoeres bivittatus | small wrasse of tropical Atlantic |
tautog, blackfish, Tautoga onitis | large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America |
Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
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Spanish | labridae |
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Catalan | làbrid |
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