| NOUN | animal | wrasse | chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Spanish | labridae | |
| Catalan | làbrid | |
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