wrasse

/ræs/

Other forms: wrasses

Definitions of wrasse

1. noun

   chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored
   types:

   Achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish, pigfish

   found around the Great Barrier Reef

   Lachnolaimus maximus, hog snapper, hogfish

   large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout

   Halicoeres bivittatus, slippery dick

   small wrasse of tropical Atlantic

   Halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife, puddingwife

   bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil

   Thalassoma bifasciatum, bluehead

   small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head

   razor fish, razor-fish

   any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean

   Tautoga onitis, blackfish, tautog

   large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America

   Tautogolabrus adspersus, bergall, cunner

   common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States

   Hemipteronatus novacula, pearly razorfish

   a kind of razor fish

   type of:

   percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

   any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes