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# wrasse

«wrasse» in Mova's school dictionary: **a brightly coloured sea fish with thick lips, found in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a wrasse, wrasse or wrasses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wrasse is a brightly coloured sea fish with thick lips, found in warm seas and around rocky coasts and coral reefs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrasse/#m1)

2) The cleaner wrasse is a small wrasse that eats tiny pests off bigger fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrasse/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on habitats and living together, the cleaner wrasse is an example of two animals helping each other: big fish wait at "cleaning stations" and the wrasse eats parasites from their skin and even inside their mouths, getting a meal. Ballan wrasse live around British coasts and rock pools. Many wrasse can change from female to male. Phrases: «cleaner wrasse», «ballan wrasse», «cuckoo wrasse».

### examples

- A cleaner wrasse swam into the big fish's mouth to clean it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrasse/#x1)
- We saw a green wrasse near the rocks while snorkelling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrasse/#x2)
- Wrasse have thick lips and bright colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrasse/#x3)
- The cuckoo wrasse is blue and orange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrasse/#x4)
- Fish farms use wrasse to eat lice off salmon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrasse/#x5)
- Big fish wait in line for the cleaner wrasse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrasse/#x6)

### note

Say it "rass" (silent w). Plural: «wrasse» or «wrasses». Like many fish names, «wrasse» is used for many different species.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wrasse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrasse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.