CARDINALFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardinalfish mean? 

• CARDINALFISH (noun)
  The noun CARDINALFISH has 1 sense:

1. small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters

  Familiarity information: CARDINALFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDINALFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cardinalfish" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cardinalfish"):

Apogon maculatus; flame fish; flamefish (a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters)

Astropogon stellatus; conchfish (found in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch)

Holonyms ("cardinalfish" is a member of...):

Apogonidae; family Apogonidae (bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth)