plural wrasses also wrasse
: any of a large family (Labridae) of elongate usually brilliantly colored marine bony fishes that usually bury themselves in sand at night and include important food fishes as well as a number of popular aquarium fishes
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Of course, the real differentiator is the Nemo window: Guests could sip an Aperol spritz in, say Sardinia, while rainbow wrasse perform a private ballet, or watch dolphins frolic in the Caribbean.
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Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2025
Offshore, kite surfers dance across the lagoon while fishermen paddle slender pirogues above shallow coral gardens alive with neon wrasse and ghostly butterflyfish.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
There, guests can swim amid psychedelic colored wrasses and butterflyfish, and backstroke with barracudas and reef sharks.
—Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2025
The cleaner wrasse nibbles dead skin and parasites off the larger fish, providing the cleaner fish with food and leaving the lizardfish clean and healthy.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
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Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2025
Offshore, kite surfers dance across the lagoon while fishermen paddle slender pirogues above shallow coral gardens alive with neon wrasse and ghostly butterflyfish.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
There, guests can swim amid psychedelic colored wrasses and butterflyfish, and backstroke with barracudas and reef sharks.
—Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2025
The cleaner wrasse nibbles dead skin and parasites off the larger fish, providing the cleaner fish with food and leaving the lizardfish clean and healthy.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Wrasse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrasse. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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