tropical fish

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of tropical fish¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

He then went on to run a successful business selling tropical fish in Tenerife.

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The only other facility we were allowed to see was a karaoke club, with spectacular private rooms, cavernous domes entirely covered in digital screens on which huge tropical fish and sharks swam.

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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.

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The girl was pronounced dead at a hospital on Wednesday, a day after she was found unresponsive in a pool at Discovery Cove, the Orlando marine park where visitors can swim with dolphins and tropical fish, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

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A University of Adelaide study of shallow-water fish communities on rocky reefs in south-eastern Australia has found climate change is helping tropical fish species invade temperate Australian waters.

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