Flowerhorn

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A brightly-coloured ornamental cichlid with a distinctive nuchal hump.

    "Could you give information on flowerhorns? I have heard that they were formed by crossbreeding blood-red parrot cichlids to trimacs. Is that true?"

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"Could you give information on flowerhorns? I have heard that they were formed by crossbreeding blood-red parrot cichlids to trimacs. Is that true?"

Etymology

From flower + horn.

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