wrasse

English

Etymology

1665-75; plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh ‘old woman, hag; wrasse’, lenited form of gwragh.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹæs/
Rhymes: -æs

Noun

wrasse (plural wrasses)

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 bright-colored.

Hyponyms

(species called wrasse): wrasse at FishBase.

Derived terms

comb wrasse (Coris picta)
humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus)
wrasse blenny (Hemiemblemaria simulus)
See search for * wrasse at OneLook.

Translations

Fish

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)
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

Anagrams

resaws, sawers, swares, swears

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