Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various tropical and subtropical freshwater fishes of the family Cichlidae, many of which are popular as aquarium fish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fish of the family Cichlidæ.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of many tropical fish, of the family Cichlidae, popular as aquarium fish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums
Etymologies
- From New Latin Cichla, type genus, from Greek kikhlē, a kind of fish; see ghel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The research team found that there is a genetic locus that determines whether a cichlid will be a”
“It looks real, nile perch are huge fish, they introduced them into lake victoria and they ruined the cichlid population there, because big fish have big appetites.”
“Nile perch are a member of the cichlid family with tilapias and oscars.”
“More impressively, the cichlid fishes of Lake Victoria have generated 500 forms in about 14,000 years lakes are islands of water.”
“At the left end of the tank, two striped cichlid fishes herded around a cloud of babies.”
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“Lake Edward (Rutanzige) which is shallow, has an impoverished fish fauna, but many cichlid species, and quite a rich invertebrate fauna.”
“The lake contains 30% of all known cichlid species of which all but five species of over 400 are endemic to Lake Malawi.”
“A preliminary survey of the cichlid fish of the rocky habitats of Malawi.”
“Predation from the Nile perch has eliminated over one hundred species of the spectacular native cichlid fishes of Lake Victoria.”
“It is estimated that the number of Haplochromine cichlids species may have been in excess of 500 while current estimates are at least 150 species (out of over 200 cichlid species overall), most endemic to the lake.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cichlid’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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PECH - marine species
African cuttlefish, Alaska plaice, Alaska pollock, Alaska pollack, walleye pollock, alewife, gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, allis shad, American angler, goosefish and 994 more...
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tropic topics
tropical topicals
subtropic, phototropic, hypermetropic, geotropic, eolotropic, pleiotropic, inotropic, adrenocorticotropic, coptic tropic, apogeotropic, allotropic, orthotropic and 76 more...
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Flip your lid
gelid, eyelid, annelid, chilidog, holiday, stolid, cichlid, consolidate, pallid, sipunculid, valid, squalid and 71 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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summerwing's Words
proctosigmoidoscopy, horrendous, cichlid, implode, nostalgic, firmament, elucidate, quintet, rhombus, mack, pithy, rambunctious and 304 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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justin's Words
braii, boerewors, lekker, viva, pap, lipodystrophy, lacticacidosis, sharp, chakalaka, defaulter, eish, oof and 256 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cichlid.
yarb ...the herbivorous
cichlids first appear
at Rusinga in
Early Miocene' -
have another Bass?...
- Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983 Jul 1, 2008