Noun:

चट्‍टानों में पाई जाने वाली चमकीली समुद्री मछली, मजूबत दाँत की, एक प्रकार की मोटे होंठ वाली, रैसे,

wrasse's Usage Examples:

Goldsinny Other wrasse have a ritual courtship in which the male prepares a nest.

Meet the ubiquitous octopus, the sleepy cardinal fish, colorful wrasse, damsel fish and painted comber.

Other fish included an adult Corkwing Wrasse, adult Blennies, and small bullheads.

The larger fish include humphead wrasse, schools of large batfish and small white-tip reef sharks.

The reef is healthy and is peppered with sponges and a wealth of life, including angelfish, morays, grouper and wrasse.

Marine life encountered on the reef includes large triggerfish, kingfish and wrasse.

For wildlife aficionados, there are congers, cuckoo wrasse and dense shoals of bib as well as massive spider crabs and lobsters.

molluscn wrasse can crush larger mollusks like mussels with special teeth in the throat.

napoleon wrasse ' eagle rays come out to play.

Among the fish may be mentioned the tunny, dolphin, mackerel, sardine, sea-bream, dentice and pagnell; wrasse, of exquisite rainbow hue and good for food; members of the herring family, sardines, anchovies, flying-fish, sea-pike; a few representatives of the cod family, and some flat fish; soles (very rare); Cernus which grows to large size; several species of grey and red mullet; eleven species of Triglidae, including the beautiful flying gurnard whose colours rival the angel-fish of the West Indies; and eighteen species of mackerel, all migratory.

Synonyms:

bergall, puddingwife, Thalassoma bifasciatum, Achoerodus gouldii, hog snapper, blackfish, hogfish, Halicoeres bivittatus, cunner, giant pigfish, percoid, Halicoeres radiatus, razor-fish, slippery dick, razor fish, bluehead, Tautoga onitis, pigfish, tautog, percoid fish, Tautogolabrus adspersus, Lachnolaimus maximus, percoidean, pudding-wife,

Antonyms:

soft-finned fish,