Definitions
Etymologies
- sweet + lips (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“Nuhung, who chairs the committee, has become a crack spearfisherman: each day he brings in several sweetlips and other varieties of reef fish.”
“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.”
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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.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sweetlips’.
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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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longer new words in Scrabble
these were collected recently
mostly from Chambers and some
from Collins dictionaries.acathisia, acathisias, acentrics, aciclovir, aciclovirs, acidically, acinetobacter, acinetobacters, acrophobics, aculeates, advertizings, aerodigestive and 1320 more...
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It's a Fish
kelpfish, fatfin, dollarfish, barrelfish, palometa, poppy-fish, ballan-wrasse, sweetlips, bichir, finpike, bergall, cunner and 192 more...
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fish
masked stargazer, puddingwife, garden eel, swollen-headed co..., velvet belly, curious wormfish, gorgeous barb, bumpytail ragged-..., upside down sleeper, crazy fish, white sucker, clown toado and 211 more...
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Gourmands, Gourmets, and Gluttons
Those who love food.
gourmand, foodie, foodist, epicure, epicurean, bon vivant, gastronome, gastronomist, gully-gut, belly-churl, glubber, grand-paunch and 21 more...
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Reefkeeping
Cool names of stuff you might find in a saltwater aquarium.
tang, goby, grouper, blenny, angelfish, puffer, wrasse, sea cucumber, percula, anemone, coral, angler and 24 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sweetlips.

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