"wrasse" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɹæs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wrasse.wav [Southern-England] Forms: wrasses [plural]
Rhymes: -æs Etymology: Plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), lenited form of gwragh. Etymology templates: {{m|en|wrah}} wrah, {{m|en|wraugh}} wraugh, {{m|en|wrath}} wrath, {{uder|en|kw|wragh||old woman, hag; wrasse}} Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), {{m|kw|gwragh}} gwragh Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: wrasse Categories (lifeform): Wrasses Hyponyms (species called wrasse): wrasse at FishBase Derived forms: blueside wrasse (taxonomic: Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura), comb wrasse (taxonomic: Coris picta), humphead wrasse (taxonomic: Cheilinus undulatus), Maori wrasse, puddingwife wrasse (taxonomic: Halichoeres radiatus), slingjaw wrasse (taxonomic: Epibulus insidiator), wrasse blenny (taxonomic: Hemiemblemaria simulus), in . Translations (Fish): зеленушка (zelenuška) [feminine] (Bulgarian), làbrid [masculine] (Catalan), girelle [feminine] (French), labre [masculine] (French), maragota [feminine] (Galician), pinto [masculine] (Galician), budión [masculine] (Galician), Lippfisch [masculine] (German), χειλού (cheiloú) [feminine] (Greek), λαπίνα (lapína) [feminine] (Greek), ajakoshal (Hungarian), labro (Ido), ballach [masculine] (Irish), tordo di mare [masculine] (Italian), labride [masculine] (Italian), 遍羅 (Japanese), 倍良 (bera) (Japanese), bodião [masculine] (Portuguese), губан (guban) [masculine] (Russian), läppfisk [common-gender] (Swedish), maming (Tagalog), cá bàng chài (Vietnamese), gwrachan [masculine] (Welsh), gwrachen [feminine] (Welsh)

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