labroid

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Meaning

1. adjective Like or belonging to the suborder Labroidei of marine perciform fishes, often brilliantly coloured, and very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

   The tautog and cunner are American labroid fishes.

2. noun Any fish of this kind.

Similar words

lophobranchiate lamellibranchiate lampriform cyclobranchiate labriform loricariine malacopterygious subbrachian placoid branchiostegal

Often followed by

fishes fish