flame fish

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   a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters

   SynonymsflamefishApogon maculatus

   Broadercardinalfish

Questions about flame fish

What does flame fish mean?

flame fish means "a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters".

What is another word for flame fish?

Close synonyms include flamefish, Apogon maculatus. 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 flame fish a common word?

flame 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.