How to Use wrasse in a Sentence

wrasse

noun

• With more than 50 species, the fairy wrasse are found around coral reefs.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2021
• The fish are a new species of what's known as fairy wrasses.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Dec. 2019
• A wrasse might snag food with one set of jaws and crush it with another.
  — National Geographic, 13 Sep. 2016
• Again, this discovery was the result of his work with the cleaner wrasse.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2011
• This roving coral grouper fish is groomed by a bluestreak cleaner wrasse.
  — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
• In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.
  — Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• In that study, scientists observed a striped species of fish known as the cleaner wrasse.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 20 July 2019
• When Chris Taylor presses play, footage of blue wrasse and greater amberjack fills the screen.
  — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
• One species of wrasse, for instance, has been filmed engaging in a marine version of tool use.
  — Jonathan Balcombe, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• These days the cave provides a home for Mediterranean sea creatures including starfish and rainbow wrasse.
  — National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• My focus swivels from them to the sharks to the organic brilliance of the coral to a massive green-and-blue humphead wrasse, a fish that can reach 400 pounds, silhouetted in the stormy light above.
  — John Briley, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
• That was odd, Evans said, because that species of wrasse is vegetarian.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 Aug. 2020
• Giant sheepshead wrasse — the only species that actually wants a fivehead.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 26 Jan. 2018
• In the ocean, groupers, wrasse and eels form a multispecies team, working together to flush out and consume prey in bouts of collaborative hunting.
  — Barbara J. King, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2019
• Other species found on shorelines included clams, ballan wrasse and ling, bryozoans and a harbour porpoise.
  — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2018
• Hundreds of species thrive in the waters near and surrounding the archipelago nation, but the fairy wrasse is the first fish to be described by a Maldivian scientist — Ahmed Najeeb.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
• For instance, meerkats teach their young how to handle food safely through scaffolded lessons, and the bluestreak cleaner wrasse polices its cleaning station to prevent conflict that might scare off fussy client fish.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 19 July 2021
• During recent dives, researchers found more of this fairy wrasse -- as well as at least eight potential new fish species -- living deep beneath local recreational diving zones.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Mar. 2022
• Before being formally described, the fish was long mistaken as a red velvet fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubrisquamis).
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
• Power and temptation cause shifts between exploitation and cooperation in a cleaner wrasse mutualism, Proc.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2013

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024