| wrasse | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. wrasse | chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored. |
| ~ percoid, percoid fish, percoidean | any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes. |
| ~ achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish, pigfish | found around the Great Barrier Reef. |
| ~ hog snapper, hogfish, lachnolaimus maximus | large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout. |
| ~ halicoeres bivittatus, slippery dick | small wrasse of tropical Atlantic. |
| ~ halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife, puddingwife | bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil. |
| ~ bluehead, thalassoma bifasciatum | small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head. |
| ~ razor-fish, razor fish | any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean. |
| ~ blackfish, tautog, tautoga onitis | large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America. |
| ~ bergall, cunner, tautogolabrus adspersus | common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States. |
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