CICHLID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cichlid mean? 

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

1. freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CICHLID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cichlid; cichlid fish

Hypernyms ("cichlid" 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 "cichlid"):

bolti; Tilapia nilotica (important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor)

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

Cichlidae; family Cichlidae (cichlids)

 Context examples 

In Lake Victoria, for example, decreased water clarity has affected the reproduction of endemic cichlid fish, leading to the disappearance of dozens of species.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)