Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any of the family Apogonidae of mostly marine ray-finned fishes.

More definitions
  • small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters

Origin

From cardinal + fish.

From cardinal + fish.

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Forms

plural: cardinalfishes / cardinalfish

Word family

3 related words

See also

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