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Definition of Labroid
1. a. Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridæ, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and cunner are American examples.
Definition of Labroid
1. Adjective. (zoology) Like or belonging to the genus ''Labrus'' or family Labridae of marine fishes, often brilliantly coloured, and very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Labroid
1. a marine fish [n -S]
Medical Definition of Labroid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Labroid
Literary usage of Labroid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"The idea, however, of mapping the beet areas in this. country should be credited
to Dr. McMurtrie. HW WILEY. JORDAN ON FOSSIL labroid AND ..."
2. A Bibliography of Fishes by Bashford Dean, Eugene Willis Gudger, American Museum of Natural History, Arthur Wilbur Henn (1917)
"1888.4 — On a new genus and species of labroid fish from Port Jackson. Proc.
Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 1888, 2. ser. 2, 631-634. l.sss. ..."
3. A Week at Port Royal by Richard Hill (1855)
"It is from the fact that so many of our fishes belong to the percoid and labroid
families, that we arc so seldom troubled with what are called by the cook ..."
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