wrasse

wrasse

English

moon wrasse

Etymology

Plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), lenited form of gwragh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹæs/

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• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

wrasse (plural wrasses)

1. Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored. [from mid-17th c.]

Hyponyms

• (species called wrasse): wrasse at FishBase.

Derived terms

• blueside wrasse (Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura)
• comb wrasse (Coris picta)
• humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus)
• puddingwife wrasse (Halichoeres radiatus)
• slingjaw wrasse (Epibulus insidiator)
• wrasse blenny (Hemiemblemaria simulus)
• *wrasse at OneLook Dictionary Search

Translations

Fish

Bulgarian: зеленушка f (zelenuška) Catalan: làbrid m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: please add this translation if you can French: girelle (fr) f, labre (fr) m Galician: maragota (gl) f, pinto (gl) m, budión m German: Lippfisch (de) m Greek: χειλού (el) f (cheiloú), λαπίνα f (lapína) Hungarian: ajakoshal Ido: labro (io) Irish: ballach m Italian: tordo di mare m, labride m Japanese: 遍羅, 倍良 (bera) Portuguese: bodião (pt) m Russian: губан (ru) m (guban) Swedish: läppfisk c Tagalog: maming Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: cá bàng chài Welsh: gwrachan m, gwrachen (cy) f

Anagrams

• Wasser, resaws, sawers, swares, swears