characin fish

1. 1.

   any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae

   Synonymscharacincharacid

   Broadercypriniform fish

   Narrowertetracardinal tetrapiranha

   Part ofCharacidae

Questions about characin fish

What does characin fish mean?

characin fish means "any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae".

What is another word for characin fish?

Close synonyms include characin, characid. 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 characin fish a common word?

characin fish 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.