noun
small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters
• Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean
• Hyponyms: ↑flame fish, ↑flamefish, ↑Apogon maculatus, ↑conchfish, ↑Astropogon stellatus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Apogonidae, ↑family Apogonidae
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/kahr"dn l fish'/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) cardinalfish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) cardinalfishes.
any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings.
[CARDINAL + FISH]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.