has gloss | (noun) chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored wrasse |
lexicalization | eng: wrasse |
subclass of | (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes percoidean, percoid, percoid fish |
has subclass | (noun) found around the Great Barrier Reef Achoerodus gouldii, pigfish, giant pigfish |
has subclass | (noun) large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout hogfish, Lachnolaimus maximus, hog snapper |
has subclass | (noun) small wrasse of tropical Atlantic slippery dick, Halicoeres bivittatus |
has subclass | (noun) bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil Halicoeres radiatus, puddingwife, pudding-wife |
has subclass | (noun) small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head bluehead, Thalassoma bifasciatum |
has subclass | (noun) any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean razor fish, razor-fish |
has subclass | (noun) large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America blackfish, tautog, Tautoga onitis |
has subclass | (noun) common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States cunner, bergall, Tautogolabrus adspersus |