tilapia nilotica

1. 1.

   important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor

   Synonymsbolti

   Broadercichlid

Questions about tilapia nilotica

What does tilapia nilotica mean?

tilapia nilotica means "important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor".

What is another word for tilapia nilotica?

Close synonyms include bolti. 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 tilapia nilotica a common word?

tilapia nilotica 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.