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)
• Maori wrasse
• puddingwife wrasse (Halichoeres radiatus)
• slingjaw wrasse (Epibulus insidiator)
• wrasse blenny (Hemiemblemaria simulus)
• “*wrasse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Translations

Fish

• Bulgarian: зеленушка f (zelenuška)
• Catalan: làbrid m
• Chinese:

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• 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
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• Vietnamese: cá bàng chài
• Welsh: gwrachan m, gwrachen (cy) f

Anagrams

• Wasser, resaws, sawers, swares, swears