tropical fish

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

Origin of tropical fish

1
First recorded in 1930–35

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How to use tropical fish in a sentence

  • It was the color of a half-grown cucumber, and it made me think of a tropical fish in an aquarium when the water needed changing.

    The Prairie Mother | Arthur Stringer