red emperor

British

noun

a brightly-coloured marine food fish, Lutjanus sebae , of the Great Barrier Reef

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But the red emperor owed the idea of this vast country to an empire builder who lived 2,000 years earlier.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2012

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