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tetra

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"Small aquarium fish"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɛ.tɹə/Part of speech nounSorted aerttStarts with TEnds with A1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes

Word origin

From translingual Tetragonopterus, an obsolete genus that included these fish, ultimately from Ancient Greek τετράγωνος (tetrágōnos, “square, quadrilateral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing, fin”).

Used in a sentence

  • Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.

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