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Wrasse

//ɹæs// noun

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Noun
  1. 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.
  2. 2
    chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored wordnet

Etymology

Plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), lenited form of gwragh.

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