tropical fish

American  

noun

1. any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.

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Etymology

Origin of tropical fish

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

On the Discovery Cove website, it is described as an "all-inclusive day resort" which offers opportunities to swim with dolphins and snorkel among tropical fish.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2024

Now engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have shown that the same physical process that helps remove dirt from laundry could play a role in how tropical fish get their colorful stripes and spots.

From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2023

The researchers demonstrated this by deleting genes linked to producing and absorbing oxytocin in the brains of zebrafish, a small tropical fish often used for research.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2023

He eats whatever he can scrounge up, including, at one point, tropical fish.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

We stop in front of a big tropical fish tank, and it takes everything in me to look away from her at the brightly colored fish behind the glass.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott