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flowerhorn

flowerhorn noun: a brightly-coloured ornamental cichlid with a distinctive nuchal hump.

flowerhorn: a brightly-coloured ornamental cichlid with a distinctive nuchal hump
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Noun

flowerhorn (plural flowerhorns)

  1. A brightly-coloured ornamental cichlid with a distinctive nuchal hump.
    • Could you give information on flowerhorns? I have heard that they were formed by crossbreeding blood-red parrot cichlids to trimacs. Is that true?2006, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, volume 54, numbers 9-12, page 19

flowerhorn meaning in Indonesian

flowerhorn in Indonesian

fish
louhan, ikan louhan

Forms of flowerhorn

pluralflowerhorns

Origin of flowerhorn

From flower + horn.

Questions about flowerhorn

What does flowerhorn mean?
Flowerhorn means a brightly-coloured ornamental cichlid with a distinctive nuchal hump.
What is flowerhorn in Indonesian?
Flowerhorn in Indonesian is louhan, ikan louhan. See Flowerhorn meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is flowerhorn?
Flowerhorn is a noun.
What is the plural of flowerhorn?
The plural of flowerhorn is flowerhorns.

Words near flowerhorn in the dictionary

  1. flowerflies
  2. flowerfly
  3. flowerful
  4. flowerhead
  5. flowerheads
  6. flowerhorn
  7. flowerhorns
  8. flowerier
  9. floweries
  10. floweriest
  11. flowerily

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