English Explanatory Dictionary

labriform

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Lip-shaped.
adj
  1. Describing a method of swimming in which fish make oscillatory movements of their pectoral fins.
noun
  1. Any wrasse of the order Labriformes.

Word forms

labriform labriforms

Etymology

From the taxonomic order of fish Labriformes.

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