Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has sweet lips: a term of endearment.
- noun An epicure; a glutton.
- noun The ballan wrasse, Labrus maculatus. Also called
Servellan wrasse . See cut underLabrus .
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- noun Any member of the
genus Plectorhinchus offish with largefleshy lips .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And while my identification skills are at the "purple one with yellow stripes" level, I do also enjoy the evocative names: three-stripe fusilier, diagonal-banded sweetlips, filamented flake, oblong silver biddy and freckled goatfish, not to mention the charming category of odd-shaped bottom dwellers.
Dive Time 2009
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Nuhung, who chairs the committee, has become a crack spearfisherman: each day he brings in several sweetlips and other varieties of reef fish.
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We saw a few blue spotted rays, turtles, lion fish, yellow box fish, long fin banner fish and quantity of other tropical fish including the rare harlequin sweetlips.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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It took hours of staring at pictures, but eventually I learned to spot the differences between grouper fish (grumpy looking) and sweetlips (they pout like Angelina Jolie); urchins and sponge; hard coral and soft coral.
Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Leu Ming-yih (呂明毅), an associate research fellow at the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium's Fish Reproduction and Larviculture Laboratory, headed the team, which collected three non-adult Oriental sweetlips from the wild for breeding five years ago.
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