cardinal

en-noun

cardinal (countable and uncountable, plural cardinals)

From Middle French cardinal, from Latin cardinālis (“pertaining to a hinge, hence applied to that on which something turns or depends, important, principal, chief”), from cardin-, cardō (“hinge”) + -ālis, adjectival suffix.

der

Short for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.


neon

neon (nominative singular)
neony (nominative plural)
neona (genitive singular)
neonów (genitive plural)
neonowi (dative singular)
neonom (dative plural)
neona (accusative singular)
neony (accusative plural)
neonem (instrumental singular)
neonami (instrumental plural)
neonie (locative singular)
neonach (locative plural)
neonie (singular vocative)
neony (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English neon, French néon, German Neon, ultimately from Ancient Greek νέος (néos). Doublet of nowy.


silverfish

en-noun

silverfish (plural silverfish or silverfishes)

silverfish (plural)
silverfishes (plural)

From silver + fish: from its appearance, in the case of the insect.

Silver fish (fish)
Silverfish (disambiguation)
silverfish

Megalops atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon, tarpum).


piranha

First attested in 1869. The term entered English either via Portuguese piranha or Spanish piraña, from Old Tupi pirãîa.

(ichthyology) Any of the carnivorous or frugivorous freshwater fish living in South American rivers and belonging to the subfamily Serrasalminae.


piranha

From English piranha, from Old Tupi pirãia (“fish”).


cardinal tetra

A freshwater fish (Paracheirodon axelrodi, family Characidae), native to rivers in South America, popular as an aquarium fish.


tetra

From translingual Tetragonopterus, an obsolete genus that included these fish.

Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 32:

Any of numerous species of small freshwater fish of the South American family Characidae and West African family Alestidae, popular in home aquariums.


tetra

tetra (nominative singular)
tetry (nominative plural)
tetry (genitive singular)
tetr (genitive plural)
tetrze (dative singular)
tetrom (dative plural)
tetrę (accusative singular)
tetry (accusative plural)
tetrą (instrumental singular)
tetrami (instrumental plural)
tetrze (locative singular)
tetrach (locative plural)
tetro (singular vocative)
tetry (plural vocative)


Laternenträger

de-noun

Laternenträger m (strong, genitive Laternenträgers, plural Laternenträger)

Laternenträgers (genitive)
Laternenträger (plural)
Laternenträger (nominative singular)
Laternenträger (definite nominative plural)
Laternenträgers (genitive singular)
Laternenträger (definite genitive plural)
Laternenträger (dative singular)
Laternenträgern (dative definite plural)
Laternenträger (accusative singular)
Laternenträger (accusative definite plural)

Laterne (“lantern”) + Träger (“carrier”)

af

a kind of fish (Hemigrammus falsei, Hemigrammus mattei).


darter

Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552

(US)

Any member of the family Anhingidae, waterbirds with long necks.

Any of various darting freshwater fish of the family Percidae, that are usually small and brightly coloured and are native to North America.

Any of the similar South American (and Panamanian) freshwater fish in the characin family Crenuchidae

(UK) Any of the dragonflies in the genus Sympetrum


neon tetra

A swarm of thin neon tetra with red bellies and bright blue backs flash by.

2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 270:

Paracheirodon innesi (syn. Hyphessobrycon innesi), a small, tropical American fish, popular as an aquarium fish.


brilliant rummynose tetra

en-noun

brilliant rummynose tetra (plural brilliant rummynose tetras)


rummy-nose tetra

rummy-nose tetra (plural rummy-nose tetras)


firehead tetra

A freshwater ray-finned fish, Hemigrammus bleheri, native to South America.


neon fish

neon fish (plural neon fishes or neon fish)


silver dollar

Several species of tropical freshwater fish of the genus Metynnis, of the family Characidae or Serrasalmidae, of which Metynnis argenteus is one; popular for aquariums; so named from their shape and flashing silver color.


characin

Any of many diverse fish, of the order Characiformes, related to the carp and catfish and including the tetra, which were formerly all included in the family Characidae.


piraňa

piraňa (nominative singular)
pirani (nominative plural)
piraně (nominative plural)
pirani (genitive singular)
piraně (genitive singular)
piraň (genitive plural)
piraní (genitive plural)
piraně (dative singular)
pirani (dative singular)
piraňám (dative plural)
piraním (dative plural)
piraňu (accusative singular)
pirani (accusative plural)
piraně (accusative plural)
piraňo (singular vocative)
pirani (plural vocative)
piraně (plural vocative)
piraně (locative singular)
pirani (locative singular)
piraňách (locative plural)
piraních (locative plural)
piraňou (instrumental singular)
piraňami (instrumental plural)
piraněmi (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Portuguese piranha, from Old Tupi pirãîa.


trahira

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese traíra.

etymon

The American ray-finned fish Hoplias malabaricus.


aimara

From a native name; said by Century to be Tupi, but perhaps in fact Cariban: contrast Emerillon taɾeʔiɾ (“aïmara”) with Trió aimara (“anjumara”).

Release of fishing pressure after a 25 year period (Fig. 40) revealed that aimara increased rapidly becoming the dominant species, and that pavon declined drastically as aimara became abundant. Payara showed a slight increase ...

1989, Ana Beatriz Locci Hernandez, Comparative Study of the Response of Simulated Temperate and Tropical Fish Communities to Fishery Exploitation and Environmental Variability:

Abak Ekwa means “the land of many avocado trees”; Haimara Ekwa means “the land of many aimara fish” (Hoplias aimara).

2018, Stuart Kirsch, Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 246:

A South American freshwater river fish, Hoplias aimara.


tigerfish

en-noun

tigerfish (plural tigerfishes or tigerfish)

Any of a number of species of fish with stripes on their bodies, otherwise fearsome appearance, or aggressive predatory behavior, including, among others:

(Africa) Any fish in the genus Hydrocynus of characins.

Any fish in the percoid genus Datnioides.

Any of the genus Pterois of east Asian lionfishes.


sabalo

Fish of various species in the genus Brycon, native to northern South America.


devilfish

devilfish (plural devilfishes or devilfish)

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Devilfish are rather shy and difficult to approach. However, patience and perseverence^([sic]) usually pay off.

1989, Heinz-Gert de Couet, Andrew Green, The Manual of Underwater Photography, Viesbaden, Germany: Verlag Christa Hemmen, →ISBN, page 214:

Another closely related marine family, the Indo-Pacific Plesiopidae (roundheads), are well represented in Australian waters, with such familiar and brightly colored species as the hulafishes (Trachinops), devilfishes (Paraplesiops), and longfins (Plesiops).

1994, John R. Paxton, William N. Eschmeyer, Encyclopedia of Fishes, San Diego, C.A.: Academic Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 185:

(dated) Any of several not closely related marine animals:

Certain fish in the genus Paraplesiops; see blue devilfish, Bleeker's devilfish.


Characiformes

A taxonomic order within the class Teleostei – now consisting of small freshwater fish, including tetras and piranhas, native to South and Central America.


虎魚

/xu²¹⁴⁻²¹ y³⁵/

/xu²¹⁴⁻²¹ y³⁵/

Tigerfish are a terrifying type of fish.

虎魚是一種可怕的魚。

虎鱼是一种可怕的鱼。


payara

In his career as a producer and host of hunting and fishing shows for cable television, Trevor Gowdy has tangled with a wide range of trophy game fish, including 1,000-pound hammerheads in the Florida Keys, giant stingrays off the coast of Thailand and razor-toothed payara below Venezuela’s Uraima Falls.

2008 June 21, Peter Kaminsky, “Taking His Cue From the Fish”, in New York Times:

Hydrolycus scomberoides, a Venezuelan gamefish with two long fangs protruding from the lower jaw.


nefasch

(archaic) Any fish of the genus Distichodus.


pacu

From Portuguese pacu, from Old Tupi paku.

Any of several South American freshwater fishes related to the piranha.

paku

any of several species of South American fishes

red-bellied pacu

Piaractus brachypomus or Colossoma macropomum


pacu

pacu (any of several species of South American fishes)


alestid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Alestidae.


anostomid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Anostomidae, one of several with fish known as headstanders.


characid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Characidae.


chilodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chilodontidae, one of several related families of fish known as headstanders.


citharinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Citharinidae, the lutefish.


crenuchid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Crenuchidae of South American darters.


curimatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Curimatidae.


cynodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Cynodontidae.


distichodontid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Distichodontidae


erythrinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Erythrinidae.


gasteropelecid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gasteropelecidae.


hemiodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Hemiodontidae.


lebiasinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Lebiasinidae.


parodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Parodontidae.


prochilodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Prochilodontidae.


serrasalmid

(zoology) Any characin in the family Serrasalmidae.


Characidae

A taxonomic family within the order Characiformes – the characids, freshwater tropical and subtropical fish, including the tetras.

Agoniates

(family): Agoniatinae, Aphyocharacinae, Aphyoditeinae, Characinae, Cheirodontinae, Pristellinae, Pseudochalceinae, Rhoadsiinae, Stethaprioninae, Stevardiinae, Tetragonopterinae - subfamilies

Characidae on Wikipedia and Characidae on Wikispecies for other genera


pristella

(zoology) A fish, Pristella maxillaris (the only species in its genus).


bloodfin

Aphyocharax anisitsi, a South American characin with blood-red tail and fins.


X-ray tetra

Like an X-ray image, the fish's transparent skin allows the bones to be seen.

Pristella maxillaris, a fish with a highly transparent body.


jeju

Finally he sent the jeju (Erythrinus unitaeniatus; these fish are covered with a slippery phlegm), which pushed the man out ...

1946, Curt Nimuendajú, The Eastern Timbira:

In the jeju, the swim bladder has a respiratory function, while in the aruana it is an hydrostatic organ. Both are physostomes, and the swim bladder is divided into 2 chambers whose walls are made up of 3 enveloping membranes or mantles.

1981, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts:

The jeju (Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus) is a facultative air-breathing fish that utilizes a modified swim bladder as an ...

2005, Adalberto Luis Val, Vera Maria Fonseca de Almeida e Val, David J. Randall, Fish Physiology: The Physiology of Tropical Fishes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 256:

Erythrinus unitaeniatus
Erythrinus unitaeniatus

A South American (Amazonian) erythrinid fish, Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus (formerly sometimes Erythrinus unitaeniatus).


水虎魚

/ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ xu²¹⁴⁻²¹ y³⁵/

/ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ xu²¹⁴⁻²¹ y³⁵/


比拉魚

/pi²¹⁴⁻²¹ lä⁵⁵ y³⁵/

/pi²¹⁴⁻²¹ lä⁵⁵ y³⁵/

Borrowed from English piranha + 魚／鱼 (yú, “fish”).


hatchetfish

hatchetfish (plural hatchetfishes or hatchetfish)

hatchetfishes (plural)
hatchetfish (plural)

Any of several freshwater tropical fish of the family Gasteropelecidae


bystrzyk

bystrzyk (nominative singular)
bystrzyki (nominative plural)
bystrzyka (genitive singular)
bystrzyków (genitive plural)
bystrzykowi (dative singular)
bystrzykom (dative plural)
bystrzyka (accusative singular)
bystrzyki (accusative plural)
bystrzykiem (instrumental singular)
bystrzykami (instrumental plural)
bystrzyku (locative singular)
bystrzykach (locative plural)
bystrzyku (singular vocative)
bystrzyki (plural vocative)

any of a number of species of fish belonging to genera Hyphessobrycon, Hemigrammus, Paracheirodon, or Brycinus of family Characidae


zwinnik

zwinnik (nominative singular)
zwinniki (nominative plural)
zwinnika (genitive singular)
zwinników (genitive plural)
zwinnikowi (dative singular)
zwinnikom (dative plural)
zwinnika (accusative singular)
zwinniki (accusative plural)
zwinnikiem (instrumental singular)
zwinnikami (instrumental plural)
zwinniku (locative singular)
zwinnikach (locative plural)
zwinniku (singular vocative)
zwinniki (plural vocative)


lutefish

lutefish (plural lutefish or lutefishes)

Citharinids (commonly known as lutefishes), although not as morphologically and taxonomically diverse as distichodontids, are distributed throughout much of tropical Africa, and constitute an important component of the artisanal fisheries in the region [40].

2013 October, Jairo Arroyave, John S.S. Denton, Melanie L.J. Stiassny, “Are characiform fishes Gondwanan in origin? Insights from a time-scaled molecular phylogeny of the Citharinoidei (Ostariophysi: Characiformes)”, in PLOS One:

The Citharinidae is one of the less species-rich families in Africa with only eight species belonging to three genera. Citharinids, commonly known as lutefish, are distributed throughout much of tropical Africa and constitute an important part of artisanal fishing catches.

2017 January, Iva Přikrylová, Andrew P. Shinn, Giuseppe Paladini, “Description of Citharodactylus gagei n. gen. et n. sp. (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) from the moon fish, Citharinus citharus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire), from Lake Turkana”, in Parasitology research, volume 116, number 1:

Any of a family of characiform fish (Citharinidae), including the genera Citharidium (one species), Citharinops (one species), and Citharinus (6 species).


poisson-tigre

From poisson (“fish”) + tigre (“tiger”).


poisson-chien

(Africa) the tigerfish, in the genus Hydrocynus

(rare) European mudminnow (Umbra krameri)


headstander

From head + stander, from their habit of swimming at a 45° angle, head pointed downwards, as if standing on their heads.

Any of several species of South American fish, in families Anostomidae and Chilodontidae in order Characiformes.


triportheid

Similar condition was described by Mirande in the triportheids Agoniates Müller & Troschel, Clupeacharax Pearson, and Engraulisoma Castro, where the pelvic bones also articulate.

2013 January 2, André Luiz Netto-Ferreira, “A New Miniature Characid (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae), with Phylogenetic Position Inferred from Morphological and Molecular Data”, in PLOS ONE:

(very rare) Any fish of the family Triportheidae.


guabina

trahira, wolf fish, tiger fish (Hoplias malabaricus)


tararira

trahira (the American ray-finned fish Hoplias malabaricus)


błyszczyk

błyszczyk (nominative singular)
błyszczyki (nominative plural)
błyszczyka (genitive singular)
błyszczyków (genitive plural)
błyszczykowi (dative singular)
błyszczykom (dative plural)
błyszczyk (accusative singular)
błyszczyki (accusative plural)
błyszczykiem (instrumental singular)
błyszczykami (instrumental plural)
błyszczyku (locative singular)
błyszczykach (locative plural)
błyszczyku (singular vocative)
błyszczyki (plural vocative)

From błyszczeć + -yk. First attested in 1852.


tare'ira

Nheengatu: tarira

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: traíra
→ English: trahira
→ Hunsrik: Traira

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tareʔir + Old Tupi -a.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní tare'y.


pirania

pirania (nominative singular)
piranie (nominative plural)
piranii (genitive singular)
piranii (genitive plural)
piranij (archaic genitive plural)
piranii (dative singular)
piraniom (dative plural)
piranię (accusative singular)
piranie (accusative plural)
piranią (instrumental singular)
piraniami (instrumental plural)
piranii (locative singular)
piraniach (locative plural)
piranio (singular vocative)
piranie (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Portuguese piranha, from Old Tupi pirãia (“fish”).


cheirodontine

Any fish of the subfamily Cheirodontinae


glandulocaudin

Any fish of the subfamily Glandulocaudinae


食人魚

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ ʐən³⁵ y³⁵/

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ ʐən³⁵ y³⁵/


pike characin

Acestrorhynchus microlepis, a species of characin found in Suriname.


red piranha

red-bellied piranha
red-bellied piranha#English


red-bellied piranha

en-noun

red-bellied piranha (plural red-bellied piranhas)

Any of species Pygocentrus nattereri, of piranhas native to South America.


piranha-vermelha

pt-noun

piranha-vermelha f (plural piranhas-vermelha)

red-bellied piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri), a species of piranha native to South America


Brycon

A taxonomic genus within the family Characidae – certain freshwater fish of South and Central America.


Moenkhausia

A taxonomic genus within the family Characidae – certain tetras.


pirãîa

Nheengatu: piranha

desctree

→ Portuguese: piranha
→ English: piranha

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pirãj. By surface analysis, pirá (“fish”) + ãî (“toothed”) + -a.
Cognate with Guaraní pirãi.

surf

Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CXLIV, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 301: “Piranha”

Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Dos peixes das agoas doçes”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese), page 89; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil (Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1966, page 205, line 2296: “Piranha”

Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XL, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 247: “Pyrain [Pirãî[a]]”

Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book IV, chapter XII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 164: “Piraya [Pirãîa]”

piranha (any carnivorous freshwater fish of the family Serrasalmidae)


脂鯉

/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/


Salmler

de-noun

Salmler m (strong, genitive Salmlers, plural Salmler)

Salmlers (genitive)
Salmler (plural)
Salmler (nominative singular)
Salmler (definite nominative plural)
Salmlers (genitive singular)
Salmler (definite genitive plural)
Salmler (dative singular)
Salmlern (dative definite plural)
Salmler (accusative singular)
Salmler (accusative definite plural)

(zoology) characiform (fish of the order Characiformes)


半線脂鯉

ㄅㄢˋ ㄒㄧㄢˋ ㄓ ㄌㄧˇ

ㄅㄢˋ ㄒㄧㄢˋ ㄓˇ ㄌㄧˇ

баньсянь чжили

/pän⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/pän⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/pän⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/


Psalidodon

Ancient Greek ψᾰλίς (psalís, “scissors, shears”) + -odon (“-toothed”)

affix

A taxonomic genus within the family Characidae – a few characin fish.


Bryconops

A taxonomic genus within the family Characidae – certain characin fish.


石斧脂鯉

ㄕˊ ㄈㄨˇ ㄓ ㄌㄧˇ

ㄕˊ ㄈㄨˇ ㄓˇ ㄌㄧˇ

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ fu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ fu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ fu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/