cardinal tetra

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   small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Colombia

   SynonymsParacheirodon axelrodi

   Broadercharacin

   Part ofParacheirodon

Questions about cardinal tetra

What does cardinal tetra mean?

cardinal tetra means "small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Colombia".

What is another word for cardinal tetra?

Close synonyms include Paracheirodon axelrodi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cardinal tetra a common word?

cardinal tetra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.