Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous tropical and subtropical chiefly freshwater fishes of the family Cichlidae, which includes the tilapias and many species that are popular as aquarium fish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Cichlidæ.
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- noun Any of many tropical fish, of the family
Cichlidae , popular as aquarium fish.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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 The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The research team found that there is a genetic locus that determines whether a cichlid will be a
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The research team found that there is a genetic locus that determines whether a cichlid will be a
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The research team found that there is a genetic locus that determines whether a cichlid will be a
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Nile perch are a member of the cichlid family with tilapias and oscars.
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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.
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More impressively, the cichlid fishes of Lake Victoria have generated 500 forms in about 14,000 years lakes are islands of water.
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Nile perch are a member of the cichlid family with tilapias and oscars.
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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.
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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.
yarb commented on the word cichlid
...the herbivorous
cichlids first appear
at Rusinga in
Early Miocene' -
have another Bass?...
- Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983
July 1, 2008