catalufa

1. 1.

   brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters

   SynonymsPriacanthus arenatus

   Broaderpercoid fish

   Part ofPriacanthus

Other forms of catalufa

plural

catalufas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about catalufa

What does catalufa mean?

catalufa means "brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters".

How many syllables are in catalufa?

catalufa has 4 syllables: ca-ta-lu-fa. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for catalufa?

Close synonyms include Priacanthus arenatus. 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 catalufa a common word?

catalufa is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.