noun. Any of numerous often brightly colored marine fishes of the family Labridae, having spiny fins and thick lips and valued for food and for home aquariums.

noun. An acanthopterygian teleost fish of the family Labridæ; any labrid, or labroid fish, having thick fleshy lips, strong sharp teeth, and usually brilliant coloration. See parrot-fish (with cut).

noun. In New Zealand, Pseudolabrus bothryocosmus. Called also poddly, spotty, and kelp-fish.

noun. Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.

noun. Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.

noun. chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored

"When a wrasse tends a great grouper, the little cleaner sometimes swims into the gill chambers and mouth, demonstrating remarkable faith that it is not going to be eaten."

comber wrasse  cook wrasse  ctenoid wrasses  cycloid wrasses  servellan wrasse  

percoid  percoid fish  percoidean  

achoerodus gouldii  bergall  blackfish  bluehead  cunner