Crossword-Solution: WRASSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wrasse | n. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WRASSE | anagram | RESAWS, SAWERS, SWEARS, WASSER |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with WRASSE (5)
When the wrasse[797] finds that he is caught in an osier trap, he moves himself slowly backwards till he can leave his tail protruding, that one of his fellows, perceiving his capture, may pull him out from his prison.
For, in the first place, there were none but very small fish in and about the rocks--little wrasse, and blennies wherever the bottom was sandy, and tiny crabs scuffling in and out among the stones, where jelly-fish were opening and shutting and expanding their tentacles in search of minute food.
However, no leather-jackets, wrasse, greedy rock-cod, or keen-eyed trevally being about, the bait touches the sandy bottom, and then you will see one--perhaps half a dozen--_afulu_ cease poking their noses in the sand, and make for it steadily but cautiously.
See BEAT.] COMBER, kom'b[=e]r, _n._ a name applied to the gaper, a sea-perch, and to a species of wrasse.
WRASSE, ras, _n._ a genus of bony fishes representative of the large family _Labridæ_, and including many species on European and North African coasts.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1958–2025).