wrasse

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

• IPA^(key): /ɹæs/

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• Rhymes: -æs

wrasse (plural wrasses)

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. [from mid-17th c.]

• (species called wrasse): wrasse at FishBase.

• blueside wrasse (Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura)
• comb wrasse (Coris picta)
• humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus)
• Maori wrasse
• puddingwife wrasse (Halichoeres radiatus)
• slingjaw wrasse (Epibulus insidiator)
• wrasse blenny (Hemiemblemaria simulus)
• “*wrasse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Wasser, resaws, sawers, swares, swears