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wrasse

8 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. wrasse (noun)
  2. ballen wrasse
  3. cook wrasse (noun)
  4. cuckoo wrasse (noun)
  5. green wrasse (noun)
  6. parrot wrasse (noun)
  7. ballan (noun)
  8. corkwing (noun)

wrasse

noun \ˈras\
plural wrasses also wrasse

Definition of WRASSE

: any of a large family (Labridae) of elongate usually brilliantly colored marine bony fishes that usually bury themselves in sand at night and include important food fishes as well as a number of popular aquarium fishes

Origin of WRASSE

Cornish gwragh, wragh hag, wrasse
First Known Use: circa 1672

Rhymes with WRASSE

ass, bass, brass, class, crass, frass, gas, glass, grass, lass, mass, pass, sass, strass, tasse, vas

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